Shared syntax and cross-linguistic influence in bilingual children: Evidence from between-and within-language priming

S Unsworth - Linguistic approaches to bilingualism, 2023 - jbe-platform.com
This paper investigates the role of structural priming in cross-linguistic influence, a well-
established yet poorly understood characteristic of bilingual language development. More …

Language processing in bilingual children: Why it matters, what we know and what is still missing

C van Dijk, J Bosch, S Unsworth - Linguistic Approaches to …, 2024 - jbe-platform.com
Language is processed fast and incrementally and involves the simultaneous integration of
various sources of information. However, the exact way language processing unfolds in …

Heritage language development and processing: Non-canonical word orders in Mandarin–English child heritage speakers

J Hao, V Chondrogianni, P Sturt - Bilingualism: Language and …, 2024 - cambridge.org
Previous research suggests that child HSs' performance in offline linguistic tasks is typically
worse than their age-matched monolingual peers and is modulated by linguistic and child …

Prediction in bilingual children

F Karaca, S Brouwer, S Unsworth… - Pred. Second Lang. Proc …, 2021 - torrossa.com
A wealth of studies has shown that more proficient monolingual speakers are better at
predicting upcoming information during language comprehension. Similarly, prediction skills …

Sentence processing in bilingual children: evidence from garden-path sentences

G Pontikas, I Cunnings, T Marinis - Linguistic Approaches to …, 2024 - jbe-platform.com
Research in sentence processing in bilingual children is emergent but incomplete as very
few studies examine the processing of structurally complex sentences or bilingual children's …

[PDF][PDF] Cross-linguistic influence online: An eye-tracking study on pronoun resolution in simultaneous bilingual Turkish-Dutch children

C van Dijk, A Aumeistere, S Brouwer… - Proceedings of the 46th …, 2022 - lingref.com
It is well-known that bilingual children's morphosyntactic systems can influence each other
(Serratrice, 2013). For example, an Italian-English bilingual child may use an overt instead …

Constraints on acceleration in bilingual development: Evidence from word segmentation by Spanish learning infants

V Mateu, M Sundara - Behavioral Sciences, 2024 - mdpi.com
We have previously shown that bilingual Spanish and English-learning infants can segment
English iambs, two-syllable words with final stress (eg, guiTAR), earlier than their …

Sensitivity to syntactic dependency formation in child second language processing: a study of numeral quantifiers in Korean

H Kim, K Kim, K Jo, H Hwang - Language and Cognition, 2023 - cambridge.org
This study investigates whether child second language (L2) learners can use syntactic
information during the processing of sentences involving unbounded dependencies and …

Multiple wh-interrogatives in child heritage Romanian: On-line comprehension and production

A Bentea, T Marinis - Frontiers in Psychology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
This study compared the online comprehension and the production of multiple interrogatives
in 18 Romanian-English bilingual children aged 6; 0–9; 2 (MAGE= 8; 0) living in the UK who …

Does L2 influence on use of L1 animacy constraints depend on alignment of syntactic and semantic features?: Evidence from Japanese–English bilinguals

A Lebkuecher, BC Malt - International Journal of Bilingualism, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Aims and Objectives: English allows inanimate objects to be sentence subjects (eg,“The
knife cut the bread”) but Korean and Japanese restrict subjects of causal sentences on the …