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Late Bilinguals Are Sensitive to Unique Aspects of Second Language Processing: Evidence from Clitic Pronouns Word-Order

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in Psychology, March 2017
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Title
Late Bilinguals Are Sensitive to Unique Aspects of Second Language Processing: Evidence from Clitic Pronouns Word-Order
Published in
Frontiers in Psychology, March 2017
DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00342
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Authors

Eleonora Rossi, Michele Diaz, Judith F. Kroll, Paola E. Dussias

Abstract

In two self-paced reading experiments we asked whether late, highly proficient, English-Spanish bilinguals are able to process language-specific morpho-syntactic information in their second language (L2). The processing of Spanish clitic pronouns' word order was tested in two sentential constructions. Experiment 1 showed that English-Spanish bilinguals performed similarly to Spanish-English bilinguals and revealed sensitivity to word order violations for a grammatical structure unique to the L2. Experiment 2 replicated the pattern observed for native speakers in Experiment 1 with a group of monolingual Spanish speakers, demonstrating the stability of processing clitic pronouns in the native language. Taken together, the results show that late bilinguals can process aspects of grammar that are encoded in L2-specific linguistic constructions even when the structure is relatively subtle and not affected for native speakers by the presence of a second language.

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Country Count As %
United States 1 2%
Unknown 50 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 12 24%
Student > Master 8 16%
Researcher 7 14%
Student > Doctoral Student 5 10%
Student > Bachelor 4 8%
Other 10 20%
Unknown 5 10%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Linguistics 25 49%
Psychology 11 22%
Social Sciences 2 4%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 2 4%
Arts and Humanities 1 2%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 10 20%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 48. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 05 April 2020.
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