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Limited input and the acquisition of Finnish: The evolution of a child speaker in a multilingual environment Int. J. Biling. (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-14 Helena Halmari
Aims and Objectives/Research Question:This is a case study of a toddler acquiring Finnish in a trilingual (Finnish–Spanish–English) setting. Despite the apparent ease of the child’s acquisition of Finnish, the pressure of the majority language (English) suppresses the use of the acquired minority language. Is it feasible to expect an early-childhood minority language to be maintained at the level of
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Relative clause attachment preferences of late bilinguals Int. J. Biling. (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-14 Filiz Mergen, Nihal Yetkin Karakoç
Aims and Objectives/Purpose/Research Questions:This study examines how late bilinguals parse temporarily and globally ambiguous relative clauses, and whether this preference is modulated by their reading habits. Research questions are as follows: (1) Do late bilinguals’ attachment preferences differ as the task varies, for example, translating versus identifying the NP modified by the given RC? (2)
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Relations among degree of bilingualism and bilateral information processing in children and adults Int. J. Biling. (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-07 Francisco J. Sierra, Amy A. Weimer, Yu-Cheng Lin, Jerwen Jou, Nayda Castillo, Cedar Garcia, Michelle Suarez, Flor I. Garcia, Gabriela Aleman, Edson Ortiz, Francheli Romero
Aims and objectives:The primary goal of this study was to examine whether degree of bilingualism related to dichotic listening accuracy, a measure of bilateral processing, after controlling for age and income.Methodology:Participants included 59 children ages 6–11 years ( M = 7.86, SD = 1.81) and 61 adults (18–83 years) ( M = 34.02, SD = 15.70). Participants completed demographic surveys, vocabulary
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Dual drivers of bilingual semantic accent: Semantic relations and input limitations Int. J. Biling. (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-28 Barbara C. Malt, Xingjian Yang
Research question:Second language (L2) learners may have a “semantic accent,” using L2 words differently from a native speaker. The current studies investigate how learning conditions and the need to use different semantic dimensions may constrain the acquisition of L2 meanings.Approach:In Experiment 1, we asked whether first language (L1) Mandarin speakers would successfully learn English carry and
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Academic achievement in English: Minority home language students in early French immersion Int. J. Biling. (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-19 Tamara Sorenson Duncan, Ann Sutton, Fred Genesee, Xi Chen, Elizabeth Kay-Raining Bird, Stephanie Pagan, Joan Oracheski
Aims and Objectives:Increasingly, students who speak a minority language at home (minority-L1) enroll in Early French Immersion in Canada. A frequent question is the extent to which they develop academic abilities in English. Accordingly, this study asks: (a) Do a similar percentage of minority-L1 students meet provincial standards for academic achievement when tested in English when they attend French
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Demonstratives in heritage Greek, Russian, and Turkish in Germany and the United States Int. J. Biling. (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-19 Maria Martynova, Onur Özsoy, Vasiliki Rizou, Luka Szucsich, Natalia Gagarina, Artemis Alexiadou
Aims and Objectives:This study investigates the use of definite noun phrases involving demonstratives in adolescent and adult monolingually raised and heritage speakers of Greek, Russian, and Turkish with the following research questions: (1) Do heritage speakers of Greek, Russian, and Turkish align with monolingually raised speakers regarding the production of demonstratives? and (2) Do mode and register
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Bilingual clause combining: A Variable Equivalence hypothesis for conjunction choice Int. J. Biling. (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-08 Rena Torres Cacoullos, Dora LaCasse
Objectives:Bringing linguistic experience into code-switching (CS) constraints, a new hypothesis considers cross-language variable equivalence, which arises from within-language variability. Bilingual choices are assessed for Spanish-English CS between clauses, where subordinating conjunctions may not be consistently equivalent.Methodology:Equivalence exists at the main-and-adverbial clause junction
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Growing up bilingual through a pandemic: Children’s language exposure, proficiency, social identities, and competences pre- and post-lockdowns Int. J. Biling. (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-06 Layal Husain, Virginia Lam, Martin Pinder
Aims and objectives:There were already calls for more longitudinal research on younger bilinguals before the COVID-19 pandemic, which added another layer of complexity to their development. This study followed the language and social-developmental outcomes of primary-school pupils before and after the pandemic lockdowns, specifically examining changes in language exposure and proficiency and social
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Do we mean the same? Semantic native-likeness in highly proficient second language users Int. J. Biling. (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-30 Boris Kogan, Lucía Agulla, Martín Dottori, Lucía Amoruso, Leticia Vivas, Adolfo M. García
Research question:Native-likeness (similarity between non-native and native users of the same language) depends on second language proficiency (L2p). However, evidence comes mainly from phonological or syntactic tasks, prompting an underexplored question: can higher L2p also entail a more native-like organization of semantic memory?Methodology:We asked high and low proficiency bilinguals to describe
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“Me aviento el English y el Spanish”: Spanish-English code-switching in Texas conjunto artist Nick Villarreal Int. J. Biling. (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-28 Verónica Loureiro-Rodríguez, María Irene Moyna
Aims and objectives:This study focuses on Nick Villarreal (1951–2017), a bilingual and bicultural conjunto musician from San Antonio. It ascertains the frequency, formal features, and socio-pragmatic functions of the Spanish/English code-switching found in his songs.Methodology:Quantitative and qualitative approaches are utilized to explore Nick Villarreal’s use of code-switching in song lyrics.Data
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Discourse strategies in multilingual families: A qualitative analysis of interviews with parents in the Netherlands Int. J. Biling. (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-26 Theologia Tziampiri, Anne-Mieke M. M. Thieme, Josje Verhagen
Background:Earlier studies have shown that parents may adopt various discourse strategies in response to children’s language mixing, which vary in the extent to which they encourage their child to speak a certain language. Specifically, when the child switches to another language during a conversation, parents may pretend not to understand the child, encourage the child to speak the original language
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Rethinking the matrix language: Vietnamese–English code-switching in Canberra Int. J. Biling. (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-26 Li Nguyen
Research motivation:Myers-Scotton’s Matrix Language Framework (MLF) has long been extremely influential, claiming ‘universality of support, no matter which languages are involved’. Support for this model, however, has largely come from language pairs that are typologically different in terms of their clausal word order, or else have vastly different inventories of inflectional morphology. My aim in
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Better late than early: The effect of formal second language training on processing of evidentiality in Turkish-English bilinguals Int. J. Biling. (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-26 Sümeyra Tosun, Luna Filipović
This study aimed to investigate how bilingual speakers process information in a bilingual mode setting which was created using a translation production task. The target linguistic property was evidentiality. It is grammatical and obligatory in Turkish and lexical and optional in English. The stimuli consisted of simple declarative sentences which were varied based on the evidential meaning (firsthand
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Word searching in multilingual dementia: An interdisciplinary approach Int. J. Biling. (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-26 Anne Marie Dalby Landmark, Pernille Bonnevie Hansen, Hanne Gram Simonsen, Anne-Brita Knapskog, Jan Svennevig
Aims and objectives:This study investigates how multilingual speakers with dementia mobilise their multilingual and interactional resources when searching for words in a naming test setting, and how their word-search behaviour relates to lexical retrieval processes characteristic of multilinguals, as well as to aspects of cognitive decline.Methodology and approach:The study takes an interdisciplinary
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Verb placement in embedded clauses in heritage Norwegian Int. J. Biling. (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-26 Helene R. Jensberg, Merete B. Anderssen, Terje Lohndal, Björn Lundquist, Marit Westergaard
Purpose:This study examines embedded clauses with adverb/negation in heritage speakers of Norwegian in North America. We ask (a) whether the production of these structures is different from the baseline, (b) how the production is different, and (c) why it is different.Methodology:50 second to fifth-generation speakers from the Corpus of American Nordic Speech (CANS) are compared with a baseline consisting
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Pronoun interpretation in intermediate-advanced L2 English speakers: L2 to L1 cross-linguistic effects Int. J. Biling. (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-24 Carla Contemori, Sabrina Mossman
Aims and objectives:L2 learners who speak a null subject (L1 Spanish) and a non-null subject language (L2 English) may experience cross-linguistic interference from the L2 on L1 pronoun interpretation. In this study, we test pronoun interpretation in the L1 and L2 of adult learners, in comparison with two groups of monolingual speakers, to assess if L1 pronoun interpretation can change as a result
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Learning and performing Sanskrit as a sacred language: Children’s religious repertoires and syncretic practice in London Int. J. Biling. (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-24 Ana Souza, Vally Lytra
Aim:We investigate how children in the Sri Lankan Tamil Hindu/Saiva faith community in London learn and use Sanskrit alongside Tamil and/or English and other multimodal and embodied resources to communicate with the Divine.Methodology:The data were collected as part of a 3-year multi-sited collaborative team ethnography documenting how migrant children become literate in faith settings.Data and analysis:The
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Phonological development of Spanish–Valencian bilingual children Int. J. Biling. (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-22 Claudio Fuenzalida-Muñoz
Purpose:The purpose of this study is to investigate the phonological development of bilingual children in Spanish and Valencian to provide additional cross-linguistic evidence concerning the specificities of bilingual phonological acquisition compared with that of monolingual children. The comparison between Valencian/Spanish-bilingual and Spanish-monolingual children will focus on the production of
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Raising Turkish–English bilingual children in Turkey: A qualitative study of parental attitudes, beliefs, and utilized strategies Int. J. Biling. (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-21 Ali Kiliç
Aims and Objectives:This study aimed to explore Turkish parents’ attitudes, beliefs, and strategies while raising their children as Turkish-English bilinguals.Design/Method/Approach:The qualitative research design was adopted. To collect data, semi-structured interviews were carried out via the Zoom platform with the participation of eight volunteers across Turkey.Data Analysis:The data obtained from
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Insertional code-switching as interactional resource in Mandarin–English bilingual conversation Int. J. Biling. (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-30 Wei Wang
Aims and Objectives:This study investigates the interactional relevance of insertional code-switching, that is, insertion of other-language words/phrases, in Mandarin–English bilingual conversation. It focuses on a next speaker’s (dis)alignment with an insertion in an adjacency pair and its import to the ongoing interaction.Methodology:This study adopts the framework of conversation analysis, which
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The effects of language switching experience and acute stress on bilingual advantages in cognitive flexibility Int. J. Biling. (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-29 Zhao Yao, Yu Chai, Rong Zhao, Fei Wang
Aims:This study aimed to investigate how bilingual advantages in cognitive flexibility were modulated by language-use parameters (e.g., language switching experience) and psychological factors (e.g., acute stress).Design/methodology:Chinese-English unbalanced bilinguals with a high or low amount of language switching experience (HLS or LLS bilinguals) performed a cued color-shape switching task in
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Experimental increase in lexical frequency improves morphological computation of Spanish Int. J. Biling. (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-27 Ezequiel M. Durand-López, Juan J. Garrido-Pozú
Aims/Objectives:The present study investigates whether lexical frequency can be increased experimentally, and whether an increase in lexical frequency facilitates L2 morphological processing.Design:English L2 learners of Spanish were randomly assigned to either a treatment or control group. Both groups completed a pre/post lexical decision task containing L2 words with either two or three morphemes
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Exploring the roles of openness to experience, emotions, and proficiency levels in bilingual students’ happiness Int. J. Biling. (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-24 Xinjie Chen, Jinbo He, Zhihui Cai
Aims and objectives:Limited attention has been paid to whether and how bilinguals’ multiple language status is related to their well-being. Thus, this research aims to explore whether and how bilingual proficiency interacts with the relationships between personality, emotions, and happiness in bilinguals.Methodology:This study employed a survey questionnaire approach.Data and analysis:A sample of 277
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Regional, state, and immigrants’ heritage languages in high school: The effect of geographic origin and linguistic acculturation profiles on language attitudes Int. J. Biling. (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-24 Isabel Sáenz-Hernández, Judit Janés, Josep Ubalde, Cecilio Lapresta-Rey
Aims and Objectives/Purpose/Research Questions:This study explores the language attitudes that high-school students of immigrant origin hold toward Catalan, Spanish, and the heritage languages of immigrant communities, focusing on linguistic acculturation profiles at school and geographic origin of these students. It takes place in Catalonia (Spain), a multilingual setting where Spanish and Catalan
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Cognitive demand in parent–child shared book reading and home language development among dual language learners in low-income immigrant families Int. J. Biling. (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-24 Emily Mak, Ezra Mauer, Rufan Luo, Qing Zhou, Yuuko Uchikoshi
Aims and objectives:The existing literature indicates that shared book reading is associated with benefits in children’s home language development. Parents play a significant role in shaping children’s language outcomes. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relations among the quality of parents’ shared book reading, children’s language output, receptive vocabulary, and expressive vocabulary
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Phonetic shifts in bilingual vowels: Evidence from intersentential and intrasentential code-switching Int. J. Biling. (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Yuhyeon Seo, Daniel J. Olson
Aims and objectives:While previous research on code-switching, defined as the alternation between two languages in a single interaction, has focused on syntactic sociopragmatic patterns, significantly less work has focused on the impact of code-switching on phonetics. Distinct types of code-switching have been previously identified, with the distinction between intersentential and intrasentential code-switches
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Dominant-while-speaking: How bilingual Norwegian–English children conceptualize goal-oriented motion events Int. J. Biling. (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-14 Hanna Andresen, Renate Delucchi Danhier, Barbara Mertins
Aim:This study investigates how simultaneous bilingual Norwegian–English children conceptualize goal-oriented motion events in their two languages, which have different and partly conflicting language-specific conceptualization patterns (the so-called holistic, endpoint-oriented perspective vs. a phasal perspective with focus on ongoingness).Design:The experiment combined three different methodologies
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Answering tendencies on questionnaires: Comparing Mandarin and Bahasa Malaysia versus English Int. J. Biling. (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-15 Zhong Jian Chee, Yee Thung Lee, Omid R. Fani, Tze Wei Yong, Marieke de Vries
Aims Conducting psychological research in different countries and cultures necessitates measures in different languages. However, the language of a measure might influence responses, even within the same multilingual individual. The cultural accommodation theory proposes that one’s association with a language influences their responses. Moreover, response styles (RSs), such as an extreme or acquiescence
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Unpacking family language policy through autoethnography: Insights from a transnational Arabic-speaking family in the United States Int. J. Biling. (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Muhammad Alasmari
Aims and objectives:Adopting an autoethnography research framework, this study draws upon insider insights into family life to investigate the language policy of Arabic-speaking Saudi families in the United States. This approach contributes to family language policy (FLP) scholarship. Leveraging the well-established tradition of autoethnography in sociolinguistic studies, the study examines language
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Different trajectories for becoming bilingual lead to comparable outcomes in cognitive flexibility Int. J. Biling. (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-08 Miriam Gade, Andrea M. Philipp, Anat Prior
Aims and Objective:Bilingualism has been proposed to affect cognitive flexibility, but findings in the literature are mixed. One reason for this might be the different trajectories of how participants acquired the second language, either through immersion or formal education. The present study investigates differences and commonalities of becoming bilingual depending on trajectory.Methodology:To assess
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Family language policy in tension: Conflicting language ideologies and translanguaging practices in multilingual families Int. J. Biling. (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-29 Heather L. Reichmuth
Aims and objectives:This paper highlights the conflicting language ideologies and translanguaging practices of a transcultural (Korean/Canadian) Korean/English-speaking family residing in South Korea through the lens of family language policy.Methodology:This paper draws on qualitative case study methods. Data collected consisted of interview data, language portraits, audio and video recorded family
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Language ideologies and language teaching in the global world: An introduction to the special issue Int. J. Biling. (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Huseyin Uysal, Pramod K. Sah
Aims:This special issue delves into language ideologies shaping multilingual education, aiming to unravel their impact on pedagogical practices and emergent multilinguals. By presenting empirical studies and critical analyses, the collection seeks to foster a nuanced understanding of language ideologies in diverse educational contexts.Approach:This guest editorial introduces language ideology as a
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(Un)grounded language ideologies: A brief history of translanguaging theory Int. J. Biling. (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-25 Jeff MacSwan, Kellie Rolstad
Aims:The authors develop a contrast between grounded and ungrounded language ideologies, defining grounded ideologies as those which are anchored empirically and ungrounded ideologies as those which are not. This framework guides a description of the history of translanguaging theory from early translanguaging theory, grounded in empirical research on codeswitching and other scholarship on bilingualism
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‘Being bilingual will open doors for them’: Ideologies informing French immersion educators’ perspectives on bilingualism Int. J. Biling. (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Wendy D. Bokhorst-Heng, Kelle Marshall
Purpose:New Brunswick, Canada, established its English-French Official Languages Act (OLA) in 1969 to promote linguistic equality for historically minoritized Francophones, premised on a language-as-right ideology. The OLA has been presented to Anglophones, however, as creating access to English-French bilingualism for various kinds of capital through a neoliberal language-as-resource ideology. In
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“Puro English and a little bit of Spanish”: Bi/multilingual kindergarteners’ language ideologies in a dual language bilingual class during the COVID-19 pandemic Int. J. Biling. (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Cory Buckband, Yalda M. Kaveh, Seda Ozbek-Damar, Brandon Yuhas
Aims:The goal of the study is to examine bi/multilingual children’s language beliefs and their contributions to school and family language policies in a two-way dual language bilingual education (DLBE) program in the United States while participating in online schooling from home.Methodology:We report from a larger critical ethnographic study with a Title I K-8 school in Arizona. The data for this
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Navigating monolingual language ideologies: Educators’ “Yes, BUT” objections to linguistically sustaining pedagogies in the classroom Int. J. Biling. (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Kate T. Anderson, Chris Chang-Bacon, Maria Guzmán Antelo
Aims:We examine how educators articulate tensions between linguistic pluralism and linguistic normativity in written Linguistic Autobiographies through their metacommentary about student language and their role as educators. We specifically focus on “Yes, BUT” objections articulated by 17 participants that frame monolingualism and adherence to idealized forms of English as necessary, despite rhetorical
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Teachers’ beliefs and reproduction of language ideologies in English-medium instruction programs in Nepal Int. J. Biling. (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-16 Pramod K. Sah
Aims:This study explored the language ideologies that guide teachers’ language beliefs and practices in English-medium instruction (EMI) classrooms. It also sought to uncover the ways teachers’ beliefs and practices reproduce language ideologies and, thereby, social hierarchies within educational contexts.Design:Drawing on a narrative research design, the study utilized semi-structured interviews and
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On language ideology and education policies: A conversation with Thomas Ricento Int. J. Biling. (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-15 Huseyin Uysal
Dr. Thomas K. Ricento is a professor emeritus of education at the Werklund School of Education at the University of Calgary in Canada. In 1987, he received his PhD degree in applied linguistics from the University of California, Los Angeles. Around his research interest in language policies in the context of minority languages in North America, he has conducted numerous international projects. He is
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Book Review: Translanguaging, Coloniality, and Decolonial Cracks: Bilingual Science Learning in South Africa Int. J. Biling. (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 Eunjeong Lee
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Review of Spanish so White: Conversations on the inconvenient racism of a “foreign” language education Int. J. Biling. (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Christian Fallas-Escobar
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Cross-language activation and semantic judgements of translation ambiguous words among Chinese–English bilinguals Int. J. Biling. (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Ting Deng, John W. Schwieter, Huan Lv, Yan Zhang, Jie Yuan, Ruiming Wang
Aims and Objectives:Translation ambiguous words are lexical items with one-to-many equivalents in another language. Some of these equivalents are more dominant (i.e., more frequently used) than others. The aim of the present study is to explore non-target language activation of translation ambiguous words among Chinese–English bilinguals.Methodology:The implicit priming paradigm was used in three experiments
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How country of origin and stimuli language influence visual word recognition in bilingual children Int. J. Biling. (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Sara Incera, Carmen Hevia-Tuero, Inés E. Martín, Paz Suárez-Coalla
Aims and objectives:We used mouse tracking to determine how country of origin and stimuli language influence visual word recognition in bilingual children.Methodology:Children attending bilingual schools in Spain and the USA completed a lexical decision task in English. The task included real English words (e.g., true), and pseudohomophones following Spanish (e.g., tru) and English (e.g., troo) orthographical
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Acquiring differential object marking in heritage Spanish: Late childhood to adulthood Int. J. Biling. (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Patrick D. Thane
Aims/objectives/purpose/research questions:The present study evaluated child and adult heritage speakers’ (HSs) productive and receptive knowledge of differential object marking (DOM) and addressed the roles of age, proficiency, and frequency of use in explaining variability.Design/methodology/approach:A total of 127 participants completed a sentence completion task (SCT) and a morphology selection
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The sanctity of decoding: Reframing Hebrew literacy in the United States and Europe Int. J. Biling. (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Anastasia Badder, Sharon Avni
Aims and Objectives:This article explores the challenges Jewish children face in educational programs teaching about Judaism and Jewish culture located in the United States and Europe. Students learn to decode Hebrew but not to read for comprehension, which conflicts with other types of literacy learning they encounter throughout their education in school and at home.Methodology:The study is based
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The role of metalinguistic knowledge in third-language development among heritage and late bilinguals Int. J. Biling. (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Cesar Rosales, Julio Torres
Aims and objectives:This study examined whether bilinguals’ metalinguistic knowledge (MK) across both of their languages as well as heritage/late bilingual experience contributed to the initial development of third-language (L3) morphosyntax using Japlish, a semi-artificial language.Methodology:48 heritage and 63 late English-Spanish bilinguals were exposed aurally to Japlish sentences containing word
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Subjective versus objective language proficiency measures in the investigation of bilingual effects on cognitive control Int. J. Biling. (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Yu Zhou, Adam John Privitera
Purpose:Bilingual language experience is thought to confer non-linguistic benefits in general cognition including improved cognitive control. These bilingual effects are most often observed in samples of bilinguals who are highly proficient in both languages. However, across the majority of previous studies, assessments of language proficiency are exclusively subjective. While evidence supports that
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Developing Chinese lexical representations in Korean learner’s mind Int. J. Biling. (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Nan Shang
Aims and objectives/purpose/research questions:The present research explores whether Korean learners of Chinese at different proficiency levels employ distinct processing strategies when processing Chinese words with identical or different orthographic representations.Design/methodology/approach:In this research, two experimental studies were carried out to examine how Korean learners with different
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English Code-Mixings in WhatsApp interactions among Spanish adolescents and their orthographic competence Int. J. Biling. (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Francisco Núñez-Román, Alejandro Gómez-Camacho, Olga Fernández-Juliá, Iván Quintero-Rodríguez
Aims:The widespread use of computer-mediated communication (CMC) among adolescents has favored the creation of a newly written code called digitalk. This new code includes, among other characteristics, the use of foreign words as textisms, mainly anglicisms. These textisms also serve as a mark of identity among young speakers. The aim of this paper is twofold: first, to describe which are the more
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Does language shape the way we think? A review of the foreign language effect across domains Int. J. Biling. (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-03 Silvia Purpuri, Nicola Vasta, Roberto Filippi, Li Wei, Claudio Mulatti
Purpose and research question:This review investigates the influence of the foreign language effect (FLE) on moral decision-making, risk aversion, and causality perception. Recent research indicates that bilinguals employ different decision-making strategies according to the language in use (first vs. second language).Methodology:Following the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses
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Phonological planning in Cantonese–English bilingual speech production Int. J. Biling. (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Andus Wing-Kuen Wong, Terri Yuen-King Ng, Yiu-Kei Tsang, Hsuan-Chih Chen
Purpose:Findings from previous speech production research suggest that the nature of phonological planning units is language-specific, with phonemes as the planning units in Dutch and English but syllables in Cantonese and Mandarin Chinese. However, little is known about how multilingual speakers possessing languages with distinctive phonological planning units plan for their speech. This study was
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The moderating effect of multilingualism on the relationship between EFL learners’ grit, enjoyment, and literacy achievement Int. J. Biling. (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Raees Calafato
Aims and Objectives/Purpose/Research Questions:The study investigated the relationship between the L2 grit, domain-general grit, foreign language enjoyment (FLE), multilingualism, and self-reported literacy achievement of students learning English as a foreign language (EFL) in public upper-secondary schools in Norway. Specifically, the study sought to identify predictors of students’ EFL reading and
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Revisiting bilingual foreign language learning advantages: The role of extramural exposure Int. J. Biling. (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-27 Elena Tribushinina, Betül Boz, Vera Aalbers, Elma Blom
Aims and objectives:Prior research shows that bilingual pupils may have foreign language learning advantages over monolinguals, but evidence is controversial. Investigating English as a foreign language (EFL) in the context of the Netherlands, we hypothesized that the conflicting findings may be partly explained by differences in extramural EFL exposure. We further predicted that amount and length
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Now they accept it, now they don’t: Acceptability judgements of nontypical multiword units in Russian as a native and a heritage language Int. J. Biling. (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-20 Ruth Kessler, Tatiana Perevozchikova
Aims/objectives/research questions:Heritage speakers have been shown to use multiword units, which merge structural elements of both their languages, which do not conform to the combinability patterns of the monolingual variety. However, it is not clear to what extent heritage speakers actually have the knowledge of the corresponding monolingual sequences. The present study on Russian heritage speakers
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Mixed language in flux? The various impacts of multilingual contact on Lánnang-uè’s wh-question system Int. J. Biling. (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Wilkinson Daniel Wong Gonzales
Aims and objectives:What exactly happens to a mixed language’s system in a multilingual contact setting? This study aims to investigate the interactions between speakers’ exposure to, frequency of, and proficiency in four languages (English, Tagalog, Hokkien, and Mandarin) and their influences on the why-fronting only wh-question system of Lánnang-uè, a mixed language used by the metropolitan Manila
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The effect of asymmetric grammatical gender systems on second language processing: Evidence from ERPs Int. J. Biling. (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-13 Mara Pimentel Saldaña, Beerelim Corona-Dzul, Haydee Carrasco-Ortiz
Aims and objectives: This study examined the effect of the first language (L1) grammatical gender (GG) system on the second language (L2) gender agreement processing, particularly when L1 and L2 are asymmetric in their number of gender values such as in Spanish and German languages. Methodology: Behavioral and brain responses (ERPs) were registered while German native-speakers (16) and Spanish-German
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The relation between perceived non-native features in the L1 speech of English migrants to Austria and their phonetic manifestation in L1 productions Int. J. Biling. (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-13 Sanne Ditewig, Ulrich Reubold, Robert Mayr, Ineke Mennen
Aims:The purpose of this research was to investigate to what extent the most commonly identified non-native features in the L1 speech of late consecutive bilinguals are reflected in differences in the bilinguals’ productions of these features compared with those of monolingual speakers of the L1.Design:We investigated the L1 accent of English migrants to Austria and monolingual English speakers in
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Language exposure within peer and family contexts and bilingual reading profiles of German–Russian and German–Turkish adolescents in Germany Int. J. Biling. (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-13 Nora Dünkel, Michel Knigge, Hanne Brandt
Aims and Objectives:While research has focused on effects of language exposure within the family, evidence for the role of the quality and quantity of language exposure within peer contexts for the acquisition of both majority language (ML) and heritage language (HL) skills is still limited. Against this background, the present contribution investigates the patterns in which language exposure within
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Outlier speakers and apparent effects: The case of variable subject placement in Spanish Int. J. Biling. (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-06 Philip P. Limerick
Aims and objectives:The current paper utilizes corpus data to examine variation and potential language contact effects regarding pronominal subject placement among first-generation immigrants in Atlanta, with particular attention paid to the individual speaker. The research questions that guide the study are the following: What linguistic and social predictors govern subject placement in Mexican Spanish
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Bilingualism, like other types of brain training, does not produce far transfer: It all fits together Int. J. Biling. (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-05 Kenneth R. Paap, John Majoubi, Nithyasri Balakrishnan, Regina T. Anders-Jefferson
Purpose:The purpose of this review is to integrate an important new synthesis of the literature examining the effects of cognitive training on far transfer tests of cognitive ability with the expansive literature testing for bilingual advantages in executive functioning (EF).Approach:The secondary meta-analysis of cognitive training on far transfer reported by Gobet and Sala is compared and contrasted
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Syntactic optionality in heritage Spanish: How patterns of exposure and use affect clitic climbing Int. J. Biling. (IF 1.3) Pub Date : 2023-05-11 Julio César López Otero, Esther Hur, Michele Goldin
Aims and Objectives:This study explores Spanish heritage speakers’ (HSs) knowledge of clitic climbing and the (extra-)linguistic factors that modulate it.Design:Heritage speakers of Spanish complet...