The acquisition of a non-native phonetic distinction by second-language learners relies on basic sensory and perceptual processes. In the present study we examined whether central capacity limitations in attention and immediate memory affected both metalinguistic awareness of phonemic properties of stimuli and the ease with which listeners could perceptually reorganize native phonemic categorie...

Experimental studies of interactive language use have shed light on the cognitive and interpersonal processes that shape conversation; corpora are the emergent products of these processes. I will survey studies that focus on under-modelled aspects of interactive language use, including the processing of spontaneous speech and disfluencies; metalinguistic displays such as hedges; interactive pro...

We develop a taxonomy for guesser and clue-giver dialogue moves in word guessing games. The taxonomy is designed to aid in the construction of a computational agent capable of participating in these games. We annotate the word guessing game of the multimodal Rapid Dialogue Game (RDG) corpus, RDG-Phrase, with this scheme. The scheme classifies clues, guesses, and other verbal actions as well as ...

This squib discusses metalinguistic modification, expressives, domain modification, hypallage, and conjunctive modification within verb phrase idioms. The examples presented here show that non-combining idioms, to use terminology based on that of Nunberg, Sag & Wasow 1994, allow for modifiers on their internal constituents, but only in certain circumstances. This observation is shown to be deri...

This article overviews the research on the complex relationship between bilingualism and cognitive development and the important implications of this relationship for bilingual education. Recent studies are discussed that examine the cognitive development in bilingual children with regard to metalinguistic awareness, concept formation, and analogical reasoning. A case is made for additive bilin...

A 67-year-old male with recently diagnosed amyloidosis presented to our hospital with acute bilateral lower extremity deep vein thrombosis. He was diagnosed with amyloid light chain amyloidosis 3 months prior to presentation and had been treated with one cycle of cyclophosphamide bortezomib dexamethasone. On physical examination, he was noted to have mildly enlarged tongue with lateral scallopi...

This paper examines the question of cognitive status of syllable as a linguistic unit. The experiment was conceived in the objective to test, in a metalinguistic task of counting the syllables, put to French speaking subjects, whether the syllable is a mere methodological concept adopted in linguistic descriptions or whether there is a cognitive reality behind it. Working with filtered stimuli ...

This paper describes the ways in which Mayan identities are ideologically constructed through language practices. It explores language ideologies based on the analysis of metalinguistic commentaries and code switching incidents in Momostenango, a K’iche’ Maya town in Guatemala. This study demonstrates how the K’iche’ Mayan language serves as an icon that portrays and as an index that marks Maya...

Bilingualism: Language and Cognition / Volume 18 / Special Issue 02 / April 2015, pp 227 235 DOI: 10.1017/S1366728913000552, Published online: 21 November 2013 Link to this article: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S1366728913000552 How to cite this article: YLVA FALK, CHRISTINA LINDQVIST and CAMILLA BARDEL (2015). The role of L1 explicit metalinguistic knowledge in L3 oral production at ...