scholarly journals Editorial

2016 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 655-656
Author(s):  
JUBIN ABUTALEBI ◽  
HARALD CLAHSEN
Keyword(s):  
Code Switching ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Language Effects ◽  
Cross Language

This volume of BLC presents two thematic sets of studies, the first one consisting of short concise reviews of studies on neuroimaging of the bilingual brain, and the second one a Special Issue edited by Margaret Deuchar that focuses on code switching, priming, and other cross-language effects in bilingual production and comprehension, presenting novel findings from different language combinations and a range of experimental and naturalistic methods; Deuchar (2016) provides an overview of this set of studies.

scholarly journals Cross-language effects in bilingual production and comprehension: some novel findings

2016 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 706-709 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARGARET DEUCHAR
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Naturalistic Observation ◽  
Innovative Methods ◽  
Language Effects ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
Unexpected Findings ◽  
Cross Language ◽  
Judgment Data

This special issue began as a conference on Bilingual and Multilingual Interaction at Bangor University in 2012. The papers collected here all have novel elements, either because of their innovative methods, their unusual data, or their unexpected findings. They present findings from studies of bilinguals speaking six different pairs of languages, and use a range of methods including experiments, naturalistic observation and auditory judgment data. Despite the differences in subject matter and methodological approaches, all the papers demonstrate that bilinguals draw on resources which are different from those of monolinguals. They show that the two languages spoken by bilinguals have clearly discernible effects on one another, and that these effects can potentially be enhancing. Future research will no doubt build on the studies presented here and extend our understanding of cross-language effects in bilingual production and comprehension.

Cross-Language Effects in a Picture-Word Matching Task: An ERP Investigation

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie Massol ◽  
Elena Berdasco ◽  
Nicola Molinaro ◽  
Jon Andoni Dunabeitia ◽  
Manuel Carreiras
Keyword(s):  
Matching Task ◽  
Language Effects ◽  
Cross Language

scholarly journals Introducing the Special Issue: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Code-Switching

Languages ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 19
Author(s):  
Draško Kašćelan ◽  
Margaret Deuchar
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Code Switching ◽  
Human Language ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Language Faculty ◽  
Valuable Source ◽  
Human Language Faculty

Research on code-switching was the province of specialists in linguistics alone in the latter part of the twentieth century and is still a valuable source of insights into the human language faculty [...]

scholarly journals On Taiwanese pupils’ ability to differentiate between English /l/ and /r/: A study of L1/L2 cross-language effects

2017 ◽  
Vol 37 (5) ◽  
pp. 500-517 ◽  
Author(s):  
Evelyn Eika ◽  
Yining Hsieh
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
Discrimination Experiment ◽  
Language Effects ◽  
Cross Language ◽  
Better Than

Students in South East Asia often struggle with English /l/ and /r/. This study therefore set out to examine how Taiwanese pupils’ perception of these sounds is influenced by cross-language effects. Most Taiwanese students have Mandarin as L1 and Taiwanese as L2 or vice versa, and English as L3. A same–different discrimination experiment was conducted to measure pupils’ ability to discriminate between phonetically close English /r/ and /l/ and Mandarin /ʐ / and /l/. The results show that L1-Mandarin pupils discriminate both the English consonant contrast and the Mandarin consonant contrast better than L1-Taiwanese pupils. Discrimination difficulty may be higher if two members of a contrast are perceived as belonging to a single L1 category.

Cross-language Effects in Biliteracy

1996 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 254-272 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martha C. Pennington
Keyword(s):  
Language Effects ◽  
Cross Language

scholarly journals Code-switching in young bilingual toddlers: A longitudinal, cross-language investigation

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 500-518
Author(s):  
Erin Smolak ◽  
Stephanie de Anda ◽  
Bianka Enriquez ◽  
Diane Poulin-Dubois ◽  
Margaret Friend
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
San Diego ◽  
Code Switching ◽  
Important Predictor ◽  
Current Work ◽  
Small Samples ◽  
Bilingual Children ◽  
Function Words ◽  
Preschool Period ◽  
Cross Language

AbstractAlthough there is a body of work investigating code-switching (alternation between two languages in production) in the preschool period, it largely relies on case studies or very small samples. The current work seeks to extend extant research by exploring the development of code-switching longitudinally from 31 to 39 months of age in two distinct groups of bilingual children: Spanish–English children in San Diego and French–English children in Montréal. In two studies, consistent with previous research, children code-switched more often between than within utterances and code-switched more content than function words. Additionally, children code-switched more from Spanish or French to English than the reverse. Importantly, the factors driving the rate of code-switching differed across samples such that exposure was the most important predictor of code-switching in Spanish–English children whereas proficiency was the more important predictor in French–English children.

Cross-language effects of grammatical gender in bilingual word recognition and production

2008 ◽  
Vol 59 (3) ◽  
pp. 312-330 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristin Lemhöfer ◽  
Katharina Spalek ◽  
Herbert Schriefers
Keyword(s):  
Word Recognition ◽  
Grammatical Gender ◽  
Language Effects ◽  
Cross Language
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