English Compound and Non-Compound Processing in Bilingual and Multilingual Speakers: Effects of Dominance and Sequential Multilingualism

Autor/inn/en	González Alonso, Jorge; Villegas, Julián; García Mayo, María del Pilar
Titel	English Compound and Non-Compound Processing in Bilingual and Multilingual Speakers: Effects of Dominance and Sequential Multilingualism
Quelle	In: Second Language Research, 32 (2016) 4, S.503-535 (33 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0267-6583
DOI	10.1177/0267658316642819
Schlagwörter	Bilingualism; Multilingualism; Spanish; Languages; English (Second Language); Language Dominance; Native Language; Second Language Learning; Language Proficiency; Morphology (Languages); Language Processing; Transfer of Training; Accuracy; Reaction Time; Vocabulary; Morphemes; Adults; Nonparametric Statistics; Foreign Countries; Second Language Instruction; Spain + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bilingualismus; Mehrsprachigkeit; Multilingualismus; Spanisch; Language; Sprache; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Sprachliche Dominanz; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Language skill; Language skills; Sprachkompetenz; Morphology; Morphologie; Sprachverarbeitung; Training; Transfer; Ausbildung; Reaktionsvermögen; Wortschatz; Morphem; Ausland; Fremdsprachenunterricht; Spanien
Abstract	This article reports on a study investigating the relative influence of the first language and dominant language (L1) on second language (L2) and third language (L3) morpho-lexical processing. A lexical decision task compared the responses to English NV-er compounds (e.g. "taxi driver") and non-compounds provided by a group of native speakers and three groups of learners at various levels of English proficiency: L1 Spanish--L2 English sequential bilinguals and two groups of early Spanish-Basque bilinguals with English as their L3. Crucially, the two trilingual groups differed in their first and dominant language (i.e. L1 Spanish--L2 Basque vs. L1 Basque--L2 Spanish). Our materials exploit an (a)symmetry between these languages: while Basque and English pattern together in the basic structure of (productive) NV-er compounds, Spanish presents a construction that differs in directionality as well as inflection of the verbal element (V[subscript [3SG]] + N). Results show between and within group differences in accuracy and response times that may be ascribable to two factors besides proficiency: the number of languages spoken by a given participant and their dominant language. An examination of response bias reveals an influence of the participants' first and dominant language on the processing of NV-er compounds. Our data suggest that morphological information in the non-native lexicon may extend beyond morphemic structure and that, similarly to bilingualism, there are costs to sequential multilingualism in lexical retrieval. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01