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Neurolinguistics Aspects of Second Language Acquisition

On 20 February 2018 By academia

Fundamental breakthroughs in the neurosciences, combined with technical innovations for measuring brain activity, are shedding new light on the neural basis of second language (L2) processing, and on its relationship to native language processing (L1) (Perani & Abutalebi, 2005). Over the past two decades, a large body of neuroimaging studies

Categories : Education MiscellaneaTags : bilingualism cross-language differences Language acquisition lexical access sentence processing

Bilingual Lexical Activation in Sentence and Non-Sentence Context: a Study of Cross-Language Lexical Processing

On 19 February 2018 By academia

Research on word recognition across languages has gained popularity in recent years, due to its overall bearing on the psycholinguistic account of language acquisition. To this end, this study was an attempt to demonstrate the differential influences of L2 proficiency, and type of context on the lexical recognition and retrieval of bilinguals. For