Studies on second language (L2) anaphora resolution have mainly focused on learners of null-subject languages, demonstrating that L2 speakers show residual indeterminacy in the …
C Contemori, S Mossman - International Journal of …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
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 …
B Brehmer, A Sopata, M Canzi - Linguistics Vanguard, 2023 - degruyter.com
The paper examines the extent to which bilingual children select lexical noun phrases and null and overt pronouns as referring expressions in their majority language German and …
C Contemori, N Tsuboi… - International Journal …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Aims and Objectives: Bilingual speakers that speak a null subject (Spanish) and a non-null subject language (English) may show some indeterminacy in referential choice in their …
C Contemori, S Mossman, ALA Galaviz - Heritage Language Journal, 2024 - brill.com
In an offline sentence comprehension task, we test the interpretation biases for null and overt pronouns and anaphoric and cataphoric pronouns in heritage speakers (hs s) whose …
This dissertation focuses on heritage speakers-bilinguals who grow up speaking two languages: the language of their family, or the heritage language, and the main language of …
Research in the 80's and 90's had demonstrated that comprehenders consider multiple types of information, inclusive of syntactic, nonsyntactic as well as nonlinguistic, when …
Understanding Language Contact offers an accessible and empirically grounded introduction to contact linguistics. Rather than taking a traditional focus on the outcomes of …
Even highly-proficient bilinguals may over-use pronominal forms in a non-null subject second language (L2) such as English (Contemori & Dussias, 2016) or a null subject L2 like …