Our preferences and evaluations are often affected by contextual factors. One unavoidable context is language. We used an evaluative conditioning (EC) paradigm (pairing neutral stimuli with emotional or stimuli) to investigate whether our equally conditioned in a first (L1) second language (L2). An EC effect was observed both languages, however, if L1 it occurred independently of recollection t...

First language (L1) attrition is a socio-linguistic circumstance where second language (L2) learning coincides with changes in exposure and use of the native-L1. Attriters often report experiencing a decline in automaticity or proficiency in their L1 after a prolonged period in the L2 environment, while their L2 proficiency continues to strengthen. Investigating the neurocognitive correlates of...

Languages vary typologically in their lexicalization of PATH of motion (Talmy 1991). Furthermore, lexicalization patterns are argued to a¤ect syntactic packaging at the level of the clause (e.g., Slobin 1996b) and tend to transfer from a first (L1) to a second language (L2) in second language acquisition (e.g., Cadierno and Ruiz 2006). Crosslinguistic and developmental evidence suggests, then, ...

Abstract Successful integration into the education system is of major importance for future prospects immigrants and their children as well social cohesion viability receiving societies. Language generally viewed an important aspect this integration. Whereas there widespread agreement that language residence country (L2) crucial students’ educational success, relevance origin (L1) disputed. Ado...

According to the Simple View of Reading, decoding and linguistic comprehension are essential for reaching efficient reading comprehension. Students with Swedish as a first (L1) or second language (L2) in grades 1–3 might need special support develop In order identify needs L1 L2 students, current study aimed investigate how they perform screening tests measuring vocabulary, decoding, Swedish. T...

Abstract Numerous studies have investigated the neural correlates of reading in two languages. However, reliable conclusions not been established as to relationship underlying first (L1) and second (L2) language. Here, we conduct meta-analyses address this issue. We found that compared L1, left inferior parietal lobule showed greater activation during L2 processing across all bilingual studies....

This study examined the processing correlates of aspectual coercion among native and non-native speakers of English. For native English speakers, results suggested that the processing delay associated with aspectual coercion is minimal. Aspectual coercion was perhaps cognitively easy to perform. By contrast, non-native speakers of English from unlike first language (L1) backgrounds differed in ...

This work investigates first-language (L1) influence on second-language (L2) acquisition of embedded aspect, comparing participants with homogeneous L1 background (Russian) in Greece (L2 Standard Modern Greek) and Cyprus (L2 Cypriot Greek), where verb complementation takes a finite form instead of an infinitival as in Russian. The focus of the experimental study is on those embedded sentential ...

Studies with monolingual adults have identified successive stages occurring in different brain regions for processing single written words. We combined magnetoencephalography and magnetic resonance imaging to compare these stages between the first (L1) and second (L2) languages in bilingual adults. L1 words in a size judgment task evoked a typical left-lateralized sequence of activity first in ...

The present article examines the relationship between age and dominance in bilingual populations. Age in bilingualism is understood as the point in devel10 opment at which second language (L2) acquisition begins and as the chronological age of users of two languages. Age of acquisition (AoA) is a factor in determining which of a bilingual’s two languages is dominant and to what degree, and it, ...