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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Crosslinguistic influence"”.
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Crosslinguistic influence in the speech of Hungarian-English bilinguals
The study is written in an attempt to report on factors that affect language transfer between Hungarian and English and on the extent 1.1 and 1.2 lexical elements are integrated into the speech in either language. An attempt is made to classify the functions of the integrated lexical elements. …
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The Potential Influence of Crosslinguistic Similarity on Lexical Transfer: Examining Vocabulary Use in L2 English
Learners’ native language (L1) influences their knowledge and use of second language (L2) vocabulary, a phenomenon known as lexical transfer. Past research on this shows that learners’ L1 influences their L2 word choices, and that lexical similarity—which relates to cognancy—between L1 words and …
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The role of L2 experience in L1 phonotactic restructuring in sequential bilinguals
… and perception. Previous work on L2-L1 crosslinguistic influence in speech has focused primarily on segmental effects. To address the issue of the L2-L1 effect on phonotactics, I examine production and perception of “illegal” consonant clusters in two populations of bilingual speakers: …
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L1 Transfer in the L2 Acquisition and Processing of the English Genitive Alternation: Combining Learner Corpus and Psycholinguistic Methodologies
… of the L2 task. This thesis investigates the influence of L1 transfer on L2 production, comprehension and processing among L1 Japanese and Spanish speakers in this domain, combining learner corpus data with experimental data to address L1 transfer from multiple perspectives and to provide …
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L2 Effect on Bilingual Spanish/English Encoding of Motion Events: Does Manner Salience Transfer?
<p>This study explores the potential effect of a second language (L2) on first language (L1) encoding of motion events. The domain of interest is MANNER and the goal is to investigate if the degree of <em>manner salience</em> can be restructured under the effect of a L2. Slobin (2004, 2006) …
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Investigating the role of an indigenised variety of English in the acquisitional and sociolinguistic contexts of the Malaysian ecology
… between language acquisition and sociolinguistic influences in linguistically diverse ecologies. Yet research into this interdisciplinary arena remains lacking. Accordingly, this thesis addresses this paradigm gap by focusing on the Malaysian ecology. One of the three empirical studies conducted …