Perceptual reorganization (PR) for tones occurs from 6 to 9 months in the first year of life (Mattock & Burnham, 2006; Mattock, Molnar, Polka & Burnham, 2008). No previous study has discussed whether monolingual and bilingual infants follow the same trajectory in tonal PR. Monolingual Dutch infants and bilingual infants with Dutch as one of their native languages and a non-tone language as the ...

This study investigates L1-L2 interactions in relatively young Mandarin (L1)-English (L2) bilingual children through comparing their static and dynamic vowel acoustic features with those of age-matched corresponding monolingual children. Two groups of sequential bilingual children aged 5-6 years (one with low proficiency in English and the other with high proficiency in English) were recorded p...

Distinct properties of translated text have been the subject of research in linguistics for many year (Baker, 1993). In recent years computational methods have been developed to empirically verify the linguistic theories about translated text (Baroni and Bernardini, 2006). While many characteristics of translated text are more apparent in comparison to the original text, most of the prior resea...

The independence or interaction between the L1 and L2 phonetic/phonological systems in bilingualism has been a challenging question. This study aims to add to previous literature by investigating voice onset time (VOT) of word initial /p, t, k, b, d, g/ by Greek-German bilingual children. A key factor also examined is the influence of language exposure on VOT variation. Twelve bilingual childre...

PURPOSE This study examined lexical-semantic organization of bilingual children in their 2 languages and in relation to monolingual age-mates. METHOD Twelve Mandarin-English bilingual and 12 English monolingual children generated 3 associations to each of 36 words. Responses were coded as paradigmatic (dog-cat) or syntagmatic (dog-bark). RESULTS Within the bilingual group, word association ...

We acquire corpora from the domain of independent news from the Tlaxcala website. We build monolingual corpora for 15 languages and parallel corpora for all the combinations of those 15 languages. These corpora include languages for which only very limited such resources exist (e.g. Tamazight). We present the acquisition process in detail and we also present detailed statistics of the produced ...

This article addresses the causal structure of events described by verbs: whether an event happens spontaneously or it is caused by an external causer. We automatically estimate the likelihood of external causation of events based on the distribution of causative and anticausative uses of verbs in the causative alternation. We train a Bayesian model and test it on a monolingual and on a bilingu...

The Leipzig Corpora Collection offers free online access to 136 monolingual dictionaries enriched with statistical information. In this paper we describe current advances of the project in collecting and processing text data automatically for a large number of languages. Our main interest lies in languages of “low density”, where only few text data exists online. The aim of this approach is to ...

We carried out a machine-translation postediting pilot study with users of an IT support forum community. For both language pairs (English to German, English to French), 4 native speakers for each language were recruited. They performed monolingual and bilingual postediting tasks on machine-translated forum content. The post-edited content was evaluated using human evaluation (fluency, comprehe...

Bilingual children have been shown to outperform monolingual children on tasks measuring executive functioning skills. This advantage is usually attributed to bilinguals' extensive practice in exercising selective attention and cognitive flexibility during language use because both languages are active when one of them is being used. We examined whether this advantage is observed in 24-month-ol...