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Direct linkClara Fridman; Maria Polinsky; Natalia Meir – Second Language Research, 2024
While it is known that heritage speakers diverge from the homeland baseline, there is still no consensus on the mechanisms triggering this divergence. We investigate the impact of two potential factors shaping adult heritage language (HL) grammars: (1) cross-linguistic influence (CLI), originally proposed for second language acquisition (SLA), and…
Descriptors: Linguistic Input, Second Language Learning, Grammar, Native Language
Pretato, Elena; Peressotti, Francesca; Bertone, Carmela; Navarrete, Eduardo – Second Language Research, 2018
Recent evidence demonstrates that pictures corresponding to iconic signs are named faster than pictures corresponding to non-iconic signs. The present study investigates the locus of the iconicity advantage in hearing bimodal bilinguals. A naming experiment with iconic and non-iconic pictures in Italian Sign Language (LIS) was conducted. Bimodal…
Descriptors: Pictorial Stimuli, Bilingualism, Italian, Sign Language
Carroll, Susanne E.; Widjaja, Elizabeth – Second Language Research, 2013
Number lends itself to the study of how input interacts with transferred first language (L1) knowledge to facilitate or impede second language (L2) learning. We present data from adult English speakers exposed for the first time to Indonesian, a language that expresses number through bare noun phrases, reduplication and numeral + classifier…
Descriptors: English, Second Language Learning, Native Language, Nouns
Ionin, Tania; Baek, Soondo; Kim, Eunah; Ko, Heejeong; Wexler, Kenneth – Second Language Research, 2012
This article investigates how adult Korean-speaking learners of English interpret English definite descriptions ("the book," "the books") and demonstrative descriptions ("that book," "those books"). Korean lacks articles, but has demonstratives, and it is hypothesized that transfer leads learners to (initially) equate definites with…
Descriptors: Semantics, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning, Korean
Hopp, Holger – Second Language Research, 2013
In order to identify the causes of inflectional variability in adult second-language (L2) acquisition, this study investigates lexical and syntactic aspects of gender processing in real-time L2 production and comprehension. Twenty advanced to near-native adult first language (L1) English speakers of L2 German and 20 native controls were tested in…
Descriptors: Grammar, Nouns, Language Processing, Second Language Learning
Gruter, Theres; Lew-Williams, Casey; Fernald, Anne – Second Language Research, 2012
Mastery of grammatical gender is difficult to achieve in a second language (L2). This study investigates whether persistent difficulty with grammatical gender often observed in the speech of otherwise highly proficient L2 learners is best characterized as a production-specific performance problem, or as difficulty with the retrieval of gender…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Research Design, Cues, Nouns
