L2 acquisition and L1 attrition of VOTs of voiceless plosives in highly proficient late bilinguals

acquisition of noun modifiers by persian(l1) learners of english (l2) and french (l3)

توجه این تحقیق بر موضوع یادگیری زبان سوم بوده ونقش زبان های پیشین در یادگیری زبان جدید را بررسی میکند. بدین منظور، بعضی از ساختارهای توصیف کننده های اسمی همانند اسم بعد از اعداد جمع و صفت های شمارشی، صفات توصیفی،و صفات ملکی انتخاب شدند. سه زبان مورد بررسی فارسی (زبان اول)، انگلیسی (زبان دوم)، و فرانسه (زبان سوم) بودند. هدف، تعیین میزان مراجعه زبان آموزان به زبان های اول و دومشان در یادگیری ساخت...

Acquisition of cleft structures in L1 and L2

The  present study aims at exploring the processing difficulty of cleft structures as a type of relative clause for EFL and Persian as  first language learners.The impact of head nouns with various functions as well as that of embedding on the processing of Persian and English cleft structures has been investigated in the present study.The participants  were 68  Iranian male and female students...

Comparing foreign accent in L1 attrition and L2 acquisition 1 Comparing foreign accent in L1 attrition and L2 acquisition: Range and rater effects

The Effects of Age of Onset on VOT in L2 Acquisition and L1 Attrition A Study of the Speech Production and Perception of Advanced Spanish-Swedish Bilinguals

This thesis explores the role of age in second language (L2) acquisition and first language (L1) attrition. The focus is on Voice Onset Time (VOT) in the production and categorical perception of word-initial L1 and L2 stops in highly advanced L1 Spanish learners of L2 Swedish. Using as the point of departure a maturational constraints perspective and the Critical Period Hypothesis (CPH), Study ...

Native-like Event-related Potentials in Processing the Second Language Syntax: Late Bilinguals

Background: The P600 brain wave reflects syntactic processes in response to different first language (L1) syntactic violations, syntactic repair, structural reanalysis, and specific semantic components. Unlike semantic processing, aspects of the second language (L2) syntactic processing differ from the L1, particularly at lower levels of proficiency. At higher L2 proficiency, syntactic violatio...