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Title: The Effects of Late Acquisition of L2 and the Consequences of Immigration on L1 for Semantic and Morpho-Syntactic Language Aspects
Language: English
Authors: Scherag, Andre, Demuth, Lisa, Rosler, Frank, Neville, Helen J., Roder, Brigitte
Source: Cognition. Oct 2004 93(3):B97-B108.
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Peer Reviewed: Y
Page Count: 12
Publication Date: 2004
Document Type: Journal Articles
Reports - Evaluative
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Immigration, Native Speakers, Language Skill Attrition, German, Semantics, Form Classes (Languages), Second Language Learning, Models, Lexicology, English, Morphology (Languages), Syntax
Geographic Terms: Germany
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2004.02.003
ISSN: 0010-0277
Abstract: It has been hypothesized that some aspects of a second language (L2) might be learned easier than others if a language is learned late. On the other hand, non-use might result in a loss of language skills in one's native, i.e. one's first language (L1) (language attrition). To study which, if any, aspects of language are affected by either late acquisition or non-use, long-term German immigrants to the US and English native speakers who are long-term immigrants to Germany as well as two additional control groups of native German speakers were tested with an auditory semantic and morpho-syntactic priming paradigm. German adjectives correctly or incorrectly inflected for gender and semantically associated or not associated with the target noun served as primes. Participants made a lexical decision on the target word. All groups of native German speakers gained from semantically and morpho-syntactically congruent primes. Evidence for language attrition was neither found for semantic nor morpho-syntactic priming effects in the German immigrants. In contrast, English native speakers did not gain from a morpho-syntactic congruent prime, whereas semantic priming effects were similar as for the remaining groups. The present data suggest that the full acquisition of at least some syntactic functions may be restricted to limited periods in life while semantic and morpho-syntactic functions seem to be relatively inured to loss due to non-use.
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