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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"early bilinguals"”.
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Comprehension of Spanish relative and passive clauses by early bilinguals and second language learners
… Spanish, namely passive and relative clauses, by early English-Spanish bilinguals, also known as heritage language (HL) learners, and by second language (L2) learners. To contribute to current theoretical debates on the role of input and age in L2 and bilingual language acquisition, and to current …
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Brain Structure and Age of Acquisition in Bilinguals and Monolinguals
… structure. Whereas some studies suggest that bilinguals handle both languages via a single set of cognitive control regions regardless of AoA, others suggest that each language depends on different sets of brain regions for late (but not early/simultaneous) bilinguals. Likewise, structural …
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Neural Encoding of Continuous Attended Speech in Monolingual and Bilingual Listeners
… without major difficulty, especially at an early age. While this brings obvious advantages such as intercultural communication and enhanced career prospects, bilingualism has also been linked to changes to selective attention and inhibition of unwanted information. Although behavioural …
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Binding Interpretations in Adult Bilingualism: A Study of Language Transfer in L2 Learners and Heritage Speakers of Korean
… core binding by bilingual groups; however, bilinguals did not show expected transfer with language-specific interface properties in Korean exempt binding. Overall responses show that the early bilinguals are more similar to Korean monolinguals compared to the late bilinguals.
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Turkish as an immigrant and heritage language in the UK: Effects of exposure and age at onset of bilingualism on grammatical and lexical development of the first language
… traditionally carried out separately either with early bilinguals/heritage speakers or late bilinguals (attriters). The spoken performance of a total of 92 Turkish - English bilinguals with a wide AaO range (0–42) divided into three age ranges and of 44 monolinguals was investigated. This approach …
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Exploring the degree of native-likeness in bilingual acquisition: second and heritage language acquisition of Korean case-ellipsis
… of this dissertation is to investigate how early and late bilinguals attain implicit knowledge of Korean case ellipsis (CE) that necessitates integration of multiple types of information and poses many learnability problems for the learners. The present research examines similarities and …
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Sensitive periods for second language acquisition: A reaction time study of the syntactic processing of English by Korean-English bilinguals
… ultimate competence in a second language? 2) Can early learners become as competent as native speakers? 3) Is there a difference in age groups in terms of difficulty with specific structures of the English language? And 4) If there is, how can we benefit from this knowledge in terms of ESL …
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The role of L2 experience in L1 phonotactic restructuring in sequential bilinguals
… during speech perception and processing for early bilinguals. If the same is true for late bilinguals, then their L1 performance should be expected to show an effect of the less restrictive L2 English system compared to monolingual listeners. Two pairs of studies were conducted, one for each …
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Use of plausibility information and structural preference in resolving sentence ambiguity in Korean
… HSs in the current study were Korean-English early bilinguals whose dominant language was English while K2s were international students and immigrants living in Korea. The main research focus in this study was to explore how these three groups of Korean speakers, who exhibited different levels …