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Palma, Pauline; Marin, Marie-France; Onishi, Kristine H.; Titone, Debra – Language Learning, 2022
Although several studies have focused on novel word learning and lexicalization in (presumably) monolingual speakers, less is known about how bilinguals add novel words to their mental lexicon. In this study we trained 33 English-French bilinguals on novel word-forms that were neighbors to English words with no existing neighbors. The number of…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Vocabulary Development, Monolingualism, French
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Hall, Christopher J.; Newbrand, Denise; Ecke, Peter; Sperr, Ulrike; Marchand, Vanessa; Hayes, Lisa – Language Learning, 2009
Learners of third language (L3) German and L3 French studied unfamiliar verbs that were cognate with first language (L1) Spanish equivalents, second language (L2) English equivalents, or neither. We examined whether learners would assume that the verbs shared syntactic frames with cognate forms in the typologically closer language. In immediate…
Descriptors: Verbs, Grammar, Language Classification, French