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Frontiers research topics, 2019

This eBook is a collection of articles from a Frontiers Research Topic. Frontiers Research Topics... more This eBook is a collection of articles from a Frontiers Research Topic. Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers Journals Series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject. With their unique mix of varied contributions from Original Research to Review Articles, Frontiers Research Topics unify the most influential researchers, the latest key findings and historical advances in a hot research area! Find out more on how to host your own Frontiers Research Topic or contribute to one as an author by contacting the Frontiers Editorial Office: frontiersin.org/about/contac

Frontiers in Psychology, May 21, 2019

Frontiers in Psychology, 2019

Frontiers in Psychology, 2018

We discuss three factors influencing the perception of phonological contrasts in a second languag... more We discuss three factors influencing the perception of phonological contrasts in a second language: the narrow critical period for phonology, the distance between the L1 and L2 phonological systems, and the impact of orthography on phoneme perception. We investigated the perception of long and short German vowels by 20 highly proficient Russian learners of German and 10 German monolinguals. in an auditory task, participants judged whether mono- and bisyllabic non-words contained selected long or short vowels; in an orthographic task, they judged vowel length in orthographically unmarked syllables (e.g., Öl). Results corroborate the impact of the three above factors: proficient L2 learners performed differently from native speakers (18% vs. 2.% error rate), vowel quantity (phonemic in German but not in Russian) proved difficult for participants with Russian L1. The orthographic task showed influences of L1 and L2 orthography, and revealed differences to the auditory task, which sugge...

Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics

This paper reports on two studies, investigating the use and knowledge of overt and null pronomin... more This paper reports on two studies, investigating the use and knowledge of overt and null pronominal subjects of a speaker in both her attrited L1-Bulgarian and near-native late L2-German. Both studies focus on studying pronominal subjects in a pro-drop-L1/non-pro-drop but expletive- and topic-drop-L2 constellation. Phenomena at the syntax-discourse interface have been claimed problematic in similar cases, namely for attrited L1 Italian-L2 English and L1 English-near-native L2 Italian speakers (Interface Hypothesis, Sorace, Linguist Approache Bilingual 1:1–33, 2011; Sorace and Filiaci, Sec Lang Res 22(3):339–368, 2006; and related work). Both groups overused overt subjects in topic-continuity contexts compared to non-attrited Italians. However, recent studies indicate that this kind of attrition is temporary since L1-knowledge can be reactivated after short re-exposure to L1 (Chamorro et al., Lang Cognit 19(3):520–532, 2016; Genevska-Hanke, Linguistik im Nordwesten: Beitrage zum 8. Nordwestdeutschen Linguistischen Kolloquium, Bremen, pp 1–31, 2017; Kopke and Genevska-Hanke, Front Psychol, 2018). This is confirmed by the present longitudinal investigation of late L1-attrition, supporting stability of fully-developed L1s (Schmid and Kopke, First Language Attrition, pp 1–12, 2007). The results of the L2-study revealed that the use of German subjects of the near-native speaker differed significantly from that of L1-speakers. She failed to differentiate distinct subject types, using overt referential, expletive and arbitrary subjects interchangeably to replace null referential and expletive subjects. Hence differences were found for both grammatical phenomena and phenomena at the syntax-discourse interface.

Null Subjects in Slavic and Finno-Ugric