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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"late bilinguals"”.
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Intonation in Indian English and Hindi late and simultaneous bilinguals
… Indian English. By analyzing the speech of both late and simultaneous bilinguals, this study aims to give a broader prospective about the speech of Indian English-Hindi bilinguals. The main objectives of this study are to understand the intonation system of Indian English and Hindi spoken in …
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Exploring the degree of native-likeness in bilingual acquisition: second and heritage language acquisition of Korean case-ellipsis
… 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 differences …
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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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Heritage Speaker and Late Bilingual L2 Relative Clause Processing and Language Dominance Effects
… than typically assumed: first-generation late bilinguals.</p> <p>The present study examines group-level processing differences between Spanish heritage speakers and Spanish-English late bilinguals in English, the second-learned and current societal majority language of these populations. …
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Processing Coercion in a First, Non-Dominant Language: Mandarin-English Heritage Bilinguals
… their non-dominant home language, as compared to late bilinguals. Specifically, constructions that vary in acceptability and salience in input between Mandarin and English are tested: Iterative coercion, complement event coercion of entity NPs, and perfective states.</p> <p>Stimuli are presented …
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Neural Encoding of Continuous Attended Speech in Monolingual and Bilingual Listeners
… behavioural differences between monolinguals and bilinguals on tasks of selective attention remain controversial, the experience of learning and using a second language undoubtedly represents a major environmental demand that can impact the way the brain selects and processes information. Here, I …
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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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The Effects of multilingualism and Music Experience on Tone and Vowel Discrimination Ability
… background (monolingual/bilingual and early/late bilingual exposure), knowledge of a tonal language and music experience on auditory discrimination by employing tone and vowel discrimination tasks. A total number of 8,769 observations were analyzed using logistic regression to answer the …
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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
… 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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Contact phenomena in the Serbian community in New Zealand: The language of the first-generation bilinguals
… in New Zealand. It examines the language of 37 late bilinguals born in Serbia, who have been living in New Zealand for approximately ten to twenty years. Data for the analysis was collected in the 2004-2013 period, and comprises e-mail, text and Skype messages. Starting from Matras' (2009) …
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The role of L2 experience in L1 phonotactic restructuring in sequential bilinguals
… 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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Comprehension of Spanish relative and passive clauses by early bilinguals and second language learners
… 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 pedagogical inquires …