Second language influence on perception of first language phonotactics.

2009 ◽  
Vol 125 (4) ◽  
pp. 2768-2768
Author(s):  
Cynthia Kilpatrick
2011 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 571-603 ◽  
Author(s):  
CLAUDIA FELSER ◽  
IAN CUNNINGS

ABSTRACTWe report the results from two eye-movement monitoring experiments examining the processing of reflexive pronouns by proficient German-speaking learners of second language (L2) English. Our results show that the nonnative speakers initially tried to link English argument reflexives to a discourse-prominent but structurally inaccessible antecedent, thereby violating binding condition A. Our native speaker controls, in contrast, showed evidence of applying condition A immediately during processing. Together, our findings show that L2 learners’ initial focusing on a structurally inaccessible antecedent cannot be due to first language influence and is also independent of whether the inaccessible antecedent c-commands the reflexive. This suggests that unlike native speakers, nonnative speakers of English initially attempt to interpret reflexives through discourse-based coreference assignment rather than syntactic binding.


2015 ◽  
Vol 69 ◽  
pp. 17-30
Author(s):  
Jian Gong ◽  
Martin Cooke ◽  
Maria Luisa García Lecumberri

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 391
Author(s):  
Jainul Yusup

Ternate Malay Language (BMT) in the past become a second language for speakers of ethnic languages (local languages). While the first language is the language of each region. But when viewed developments today, more and more ethnic in North Maluku which uses Ternate Malay as a first language, including ethnic Ternate.Keywords: Language Influence, European Nations, Ternate, North Maluku.


2007 ◽  
Vol 78 ◽  
pp. 131-139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Merel Keijzer

This paper examines whether the order in which Dutch emigrants in the English-speaking part of Canada lose their first language is the reverse of that in which Dutch-speaking children first acquire their mother tongue. This idea, captured in the regression hypothesis, has not been extensively tested so far. Through an experimental research design, the study shows that regression does obtain in the case of morphology, but that syntax is more dominated by second language influence from English. The results furthermore indicate that regression is a much more subtle phenomenon than has previously been assumed with attriters showing more parallels with advanced L1 acquirers than with children in the initial stages of their linguistic development.


2018 ◽  
Vol 68 (3) ◽  
pp. 744-779 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Schimke ◽  
Israel de la Fuente ◽  
Barbara Hemforth ◽  
Saveria Colonna

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