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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"L2 speakers"”.
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The processing of two types of Chinese idioms by L1 and L2 speakers
… component words; therefore, how would Chinese speakers comprehend idioms? What about Chinese second-language learners? In Chinese, there are two major categories of idioms: 惯用语 guan-yong-yu (GYY) conventional-use-language, and 成语 cheng-yu (CY) fixed-language. GYYs are often used in informal and …
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Use of the “ba” construction in Heritage Chinese speakers and L2 speakers of Chinese
… construction in heritage Chinese speak-ers and L2 speakers of Chinese. The study compares the use and knowledge of the ba con-struction by L1 native speakers, heritage speakers (HL), and L2 learners of Mandarin Chi-nese. Heritage language speakers are exposed to minority languages from birth, …
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Lexico-semantic processing in adult monolingual Russian and bilingual Russian (L1) - English (L2) Speakers
… Russian and bilingual Russian (L1) – English (L2) speaking adults. This has been achieved via two main approaches: The classic semantic priming paradigm in naming tasks and free recall tasks which take into account the growing body of research on the Age of Acquisition (AoA) effects in semantic …
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English Proficiency of Icelandic Adolescents: A Comparative Study of Vocabulary Use and Syntactic Complexity in L1 and L2 Speakers
… are interrelated. Native (L1) and non-native (L2) Icelandic speakers were compared on all fronts to detect any differences in their English proficiencies. On the whole, the participants’ scores ranged widely. The group mean demonstrated a certain ability to narrate using a moderate number of …
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Quantifying syntactic priming in oral production : a corpus-based investigation into dyadic interaction of L1-L1 and L2-L2 speakers of English
It is well established that speakers are inclined to repeat themselves or their interlocutors in native language (L1) and second language (L2) conversations. This phenomenon is largely attributed to priming, whereby exposure to a given language form, i.e. prime, facilitates its processing or that …
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Processing of non-canonical word orders in an L2
… treated the same by native (L1) and non-native (L2) speakers. The two languages investigated are Norwegian and German. 32 L1 Norwegian and 32 L1 German advanced learners of Norwegian were tested in two experiments on object topicalization in Norwegian. The results from the online self-paced …
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L1 and L2 Processing of Filler-Gap Dependencies in Mandarin Chinese Speakers: Evidence from Self-Paced Reading Times and Event-Related Potentials
… While previous studies have shown that native speakers (L1) employ both incremental and predictive processing in real time (e.g., Clifton & Frazier, 1989; Altmann & Kamide, 1999), debates persist regarding how second language speakers (L2) process sentences in real time and whether their …
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The influence of task factors and language background on morphological processing in Spanish
… thesis examines whether native, heritage, and L2 speakers of Spanish engage a morphological layer of representation in the processing of inflected words, and whether they do so with both regularly- and irregularly-inflected words. Also examined is whether this tendency towards compositional …
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Speaking Japanese: L1 and L2 grammatical encoding of case particles and adjectives/adjectival nouns
… theories of sentence production to the study of L2 acquisition. To achieve this goal, two steps were taken: first, some of the specifics of the grammatical encoding processes that occur during L1 Japanese sentence production were investigated; second, L2 Japanese learners' sentence production …
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Interpretation of Overt Pronouns in L1 and L2 Japanese: The Role of Context
… by native (N=21) and advanced L1-English/L2-Japanese (N=20) speakers, using interpretation, reaction-time, and eye-tracking data. Previous studies have investigated L1 and L2 pronoun interpretation in null-subject languages like Spanish, Italian, and Greek, finding that L1 speakers tend to …
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The role of the native language in second-language syntactic processing
… on syntactic processing in a second language (L2). While the Competition Model (Bates & MacWhinney, 1982, 1987, 1989, MacWhinney, 1997) predicts that syntactic properties of the L1 can have an influence on L2 processing, the Shallow-Structure Account (Clahsen & Felser, 2006) suggests that an L2 …
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An Investigation of English Learners' Willingness to Communicate in a Linguistically Diverse Setting
… al., 1998; Kang, 2005). Direct factors include L2 anxiety, perceived L2 competence, and L2 motivation (MacIntyre & Charos, 1996; MacIntyre et al., 1998), which account for L2 speakers’ psychological changes determinant of their L2 WTC. Indirect factors, on the other hand, account for all …
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Syntactic focus structure processing : behavioral and electrophysiological evidence from L1 and L2 French
… were behavioral studies of native and L2 speakers of French in which subjects made acceptability judgments of sentences containing felicitous or infelicitous information structure. In Experiment 1, there was evidence of a postmaturational effect of age of arrival on judgment task …
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Finanzamt and Termins in Hamburg
… with a particular focus on second-language (L2) speakers of Ger-man. Drawing on multiple episodes of a podcast focused on life as a foreign woman in Germany featuring two multilingual speakers, the study examines instances where German lexical items or phrases are embedded within English …
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Models and Methods in Cultural and Social Evolution
… <p>Chapter 3 Language shift is when a group of speakers adopts a new language, and occurs as part of the larger phenomenon of language contact. It has long been observed that language change is accelerated during shift situations. The standard explanation for this accelerated change has been the …
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Differential object marking in Basque: grammaticalization, attitudes and ideological representations
… Spanish leísmo and (2) the abundant increase of L2 learners in the Basque Autonomous Community in Spain that results from its relatively recent revitalization process will allow us test more recent contact- effects. It suffices to remark that in language contact situations where strong …
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The effects of working memory and directionality on sentence build-up drill performance
… sentence build-up drills (SBD). Thirty Chinese L2 speakers participated in the experiment, which consisted of a SBD test, a R-span test, and a language background questionnaire. The results indicate that the backward input direction has several advantages over the forward direction. First, the …
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Second language processing in reading and translation
… the processing mechanisms of non-native English speakers at both the sentence level and the morphological level, addressing the issue of whether adult second language (L2) learners qualitatively differ from native speakers in processing linguistic input. Using psycholinguistic on-line techniques …
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DEVELOPING THINKING IN L2 SPEAKING: EVIDENCE FROM SPATIAL-TEMPORAL SYSTEM IN CHINESE AND ENGLISH LEARNERS
… to investigate how L1 thinking influences L2 speaking in Chinese native speakers learning English and English native speakers learning Chinese. It examines (a) habitual language use of spatial and temporal referents cross-linguistically and (b) dynamic changes of spatial and …
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A Markedness Approach to Epenthesis in Arabic Speakers' L2 English
… Cairene Arabic, Iraqi Arabic, and Najdi Arabic speakers deal with complex syllable margins in their L2 English. While previous studies have attributed Cairene and Iraqi speakers’ pronunciations of English syllables that contain consonant clusters to transfer of allowed syllable structures from …
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