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Amy S. Pratt; Kathleen Durant; Elizabeth D. Peña; Lisa M. Bedore – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2024
Purpose: This study used structural equation modeling to investigate the dimensionality of language in Spanish-English bilingual kindergartners. Five theoretical models were compared, including (a) a unidimensional model; (b) a two-dimensional model by language (Spanish, English); (c) a three-dimensional model by domain of language (phonology,…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Kindergarten, Young Children, Spanish
Roy Seo; Chantel S. Prat – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2023
Bilinguals employ both global and local control mechanisms to manage coactivated languages that compete for selection, yet little is known about how they operate on morphosyntactic information. The current study investigated bilingual language control mechanisms for a morphosyntactic production task. Across two experiments, 48 early…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, English, Spanish, Code Switching (Language)
Goodrich, J. Marc; Fitton, Lisa; Thayer, Lauren – Annals of Dyslexia, 2023
Understanding factors that influence reading achievement among bilingual children is considerably more complex than it is for monolingual children. Research on dual language development indicates that bilingual children's oral language abilities are often distributed across languages in varied ways, due to heterogeneity of dual language exposure…
Descriptors: Reading Achievement, Bilingual Students, Kindergarten, Grade 1
Anny Castilla-Earls; Amanda Owen Van Horne – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2023
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to examine the feasibility of the delivery of complex syntax recast therapy via telepractice to Spanish-English bilingual children and provide preliminary evidence of the efficacy of this approach. Method: Fifteen bilingual children with developmental language disorders were stratified based on language…
Descriptors: Syntax, Bilingualism, Children, Spanish
Snyder, William – Journal of Child Language, 2021
Three case-studies, using longitudinal records of children's spontaneous speech, illustrate what happens when a child's syntax changes. The first, examining acquisition of English verb-particle constructions, shows a near-total absence of commission errors. The second, examining acquisition of prepositional questions in English or Spanish, shows…
Descriptors: Child Language, Syntax, Language Acquisition, English
Ares Llop Naya; Eloi Puig-Mayenco; Anna Paradís – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2025
This paper provides fresh insights on how PIs (Polarity Items) in non-veridical contexts (questions and conditionals) are represented in the grammar of multilingual learners of Catalan at different stages of development. It explores how this non-native grammatical system interacts with other previously acquired systems of negation and the implicit…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Multilingualism, English (Second Language), English
Diogo R. L. S. Cosme – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The Portuguese present perfect (P-PP) is an understudied topic in the field of generative language acquisition. In the past decade, Third Language Acquisition (L3A) has enjoyed special attention in studying how multilingualism works. Researchers have concentrated on the examination of the source of transfer at the initial stages. However, there is…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Acquisition, Multilingualism, Portuguese
Lorenzo García-Amaya – Second Language Research, 2024
orInverse relations, or "trade-off effects," are a common outcome of interlanguage development: a learner may increase performance in one linguistic domain while simultaneously decreasing performance in another. In this study, we investigate the relationships between one aspect of fluency (pause usage) and two aspects of syntactic…
Descriptors: Spanish, Study Abroad, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction
Pietro Pesce – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The present dissertation intends to investigate the syntactic nature and L2-acquisition of passive sentence structure in two Romance varieties, Italian and Spanish. First, I will present an analytic proposal couched within the Generative Approach (Chomsky, 1957, and subsequent work); from there, and following Perlmutter and Postal's (1977)…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Italian, Syntax, Spanish
Boyoung Kim; Grant Goodall – Second Language Research, 2024
Recent approaches to the "that"-trace phenomenon in English include syntactic analyses based on the principle of Anti-locality and a sentence production analysis based on the Principle of End Weight. These analyses have many similarities, but they differ in their predictions for second language (L2) speakers. In an Anti-locality…
Descriptors: Syntax, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
Silvia Perez-Cortes – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2025
Verbal morphology has been identified as a particularly vulnerable domain for adult heritage speakers (HSs) of Spanish, especially when it involves the selection of subjunctive mood. A minimal amount is known, however, about the potential effects of the variability associated with these forms on the acquisition of related epiphenomena, such as the…
Descriptors: Spanish, Phonemes, Native Language, Second Language Learning
Lazewnik, Rochel; Creaghead, Nancy A.; Smith, Allison Breit; Prendeville, Jo-Anne; Raisor-Becker, Lesley; Silbert, Noah – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2019
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine if a standardized assessment developed for Spanish-English dual language learners (SEDLLs) differentiates SEDLLs with language impairment (LI) from children with typical language better than the translated/adapted Spanish and/or English version of a standardized assessment and to determine if…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Bilingualism, Spanish, English
Gomez, Antonio Martin – ProQuest LLC, 2020
The present study contributes to our understanding of the effects of age and type of linguistic input in the acquisition of Spanish as a second language in adulthood. I examine the Spanish syntax (word order) of three groups of speakers, monolingual Spanish speakers from Mexico and two bilingual English-Spanish speakers born and raised in the…
Descriptors: Spanish, Second Language Learning, Foreign Countries, English
Hunter Nicholas McKenzie – ProQuest LLC, 2022
English ditransitive verbs show a complex alternation between the double object construction (DOC, (1)) and prepositional object datives (POD, (2)). This dissertation examines the acquisition, representation, and learnability of the dative alternation among L2 English learners, presenting experimental data from participants with L1 backgrounds of…
Descriptors: Verbs, Second Language Learning, Syntax, Grammar
Gámez, Perla B.; Vasilyeva, Marina – Language Learning and Development, 2020
This study investigated cross-linguistic priming in six-year-old, balanced Spanish-English bilinguals (n = 60). We examined bilinguals' production of transitive forms in English (active, passive) after exposure to Spanish transitives (Study 1; M age = 6.2 years; SD = 0.3) and their production of transitive forms in Spanish (active, passive) after…
Descriptors: Syntax, Verbs, Contrastive Linguistics, Spanish