Integrated knowledge of agreement in early and late English-Spanish bilinguals
Integrated knowledge of agreement in early and late English-Spanish bilinguals
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DOI：
10.1017/s0142716410000342
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发表时间：
2011-01-01
影响因子：
2.1
通讯作者：
Foote, Rebecca
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作者：
Foote, Rebecca
研究表明，由于缺乏对某些第二语言结构的基本综合知识，晚期双语者在自动接触和使用某些第二语言结构方面可能会持续存在困难。相比之下，早期双语者在需要这种自动知识的语言使用方面表现出优势。本研究通过考察早期和晚期的英语-西班牙语双语者在阅读理解时对协议错误的敏感性，来考察他们是否整合了西班牙语中的协议知识。一个实验和两个实验的结果表明，早期和晚期双语者确实拥有西班牙语中主谓数量一致和名词-形容词性别一致的综合知识，尽管对一致错误的敏感性与实验刺激的性质存在交互作用。
Research suggests that late bilinguals may have persistent difficulties with the automatic access and use of some second language structures because of a lack of underlying integrated knowledge of those structures. In contrast, early bilinguals show advantages in aspects of language use that require this type of automatic knowledge. This study investigated whether early and late English-Spanish bilinguals evidence integrated knowledge of agreement in Spanish by examining their sensitivity to agreement errors while reading for comprehension. The results of a pilot and two experiments indicate that both early and late bilinguals do possess integrated knowledge of subject-verb number agreement and noun-adjective gender agreement in Spanish, although sensitivity to agreement errors interacts with properties of the experimental stimuli.