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Direct linkFoucart, Alice; Martin, Clara D.; Moreno, Eva M.; Costa, Albert – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2014
Why is it more difficult to comprehend a 2nd (L2) than a 1st language (L1)? In the present article we investigate whether difficulties during L2 sentence comprehension come from differences in the way L1 and L2 speakers anticipate upcoming words. We recorded the brain activity (event-related potentials) of Spanish monolinguals, French-Spanish late…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Second Language Learning, Native Language, Brain Hemisphere Functions
Foucart, Alice; Branigan, Holly P.; Bard, Ellen G. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2010
Determiner selection requires the retrieval of the noun's syntactic features (e.g., gender) and sometimes of its phonological features. Miozzo and Caramazza (1999) argued that the selection of determiners in Germanic languages is more straightforward than in Romance languages because it is not dependent on the phonological properties of the…
Descriptors: Language Research, Phonology, Nouns, Task Analysis
Foucart, Alice; Frenck-Mestre, Cheryl – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2011
This study examines the effect of proficiency and similarity between the first and the second language on grammatical gender processing in L2. In three experiments, we manipulated gender agreement violations within the determiner phrase (DP), between the determiner and the noun (Experiment 1), the postposed adjective and the noun (Experiment 2)…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Nouns, Grammar, Language Processing
