Bilingualism is associated with lifelong cognitive benefits that correlate with facilitated achievements in subsequent language learning. Second language (L2) instruction as well can promote the development of cognitive abilities involved in language learning, and among these, L2 input processing. Crucial to L2 acquisition, input processing is the…

This dissertation investigates the role of grammatical gender facilitation and inhibition in second language (L2) learners' spoken word recognition. Native speakers of languages that have grammatical gender are sensitive to gender marking when hearing and recognizing a word. Gender facilitation refers to when a given noun that is preceded by an…

Following a folk linguistic approach, this investigation of first-, second- and fourth-year learners' accounts of German found that (1) few had held pre-conceived notions about German prior to language study; (2) most pre-conceived notions concerned German pronunciation; (3) pre-conceived notions about vocabulary were most likely to influence the…

This paper investigates the acquisition of prosodic words in European Portuguese (EP) through analysis of grammatical and statistical properties of the target language and child speech. The analysis of grammatical properties shows that there are solid cues to the prosodic word (PW) in EP, and the presence of early word-based phonology in child…

The purposes of this study were to investigate the relation between knowledge of formatives and knowledge of formative derivatives and the relation between knowledge of nonformatives and knowledge of nonformative derivatives, and to determine if the first relation is greater than the second. The subjects were 178 college freshmen who were enrolled…

Derivations of the term "gerund" are examined as they pertain to native English speakers learning French, Italian, and/or Spanish. The form's etymology is chronicled from Latin, and its current usage in student textbooks in the three languages is examined. A solution to the terminological confusion surrounding the term is proposed. (41…

This selective bibliography lists 4 books and 11 journal articles dealing with Italian-English contrastive studies. The entries range in date from 1957 to 1973 with the majority published since 1965. The books cited are American or Italian publications and the articles appeared in well-known European or American pedagogical language journals. (TL)

This selective bibliography lists 14 books and 24 journal articles dealing with French-English contrastive studies. The entries range in date from 1954 to 1975 with the majority published since 1965. The books cited are mostly European or American publications and the articles appeared in well-known European or American pedagogical language…

This selective bibliography lists 4 books and 14 journal articles dealing with Portuguese-English contrastive studies. The entries range in date from 1948 to 1972 with the majority published since 1965. The books cited are Brazilian or European publications and the articles appeared in well-known Brazilian or American pedagogical language…

The first volume of this series is divided into reports, studies, and preliminary results of work in progress. All were presented at a meeting on contrastive linguistics held in Romania. The project is intended to reveal the specificity of the structures and systems of Romanian and English with a view to comparing them and, on that basis,…

This selective bibliography lists 13 books and 53 journal articles dealing with Spanish-English contrastive studies. The entries range in date from 1935 to 1972 with the majority published since 1965. Most of the books cited were published in Great Britain or the United States and the articles appeared in well-known pedagogical language journals…