Can late L2 learners acquire new grammatical features? Evidence from ERPs and eye-tracking ☆

By Alice Foucart, C. Frenck-Mestre. 2012

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology

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Processing empty categories in a second language: When naturalistic exposure fills the (intermediate) gap* (2012, background): “In a subsequent study (Foucart & Frenck-Mestre, 2012), Foucart and Frenck-Mestre combined ERPs and eyetracking and showed that participants of a similar profile (high proficiency, extensive formal exposure), but with an L1 (English) that does not share the same features as their L2 (French), can…”
Understanding the Consequences of Bilingualism for Language Processing and Cognition (2013, background): “An illustration of this problem can be seen in the recent paper by Paap and Greenberg (2013) in which they call into question all evidence for bilingual advantages in executive function.”
An ERP study on L2 syntax processing: When do learners fail? (2014, background): “Despite these consistent results, however, it is clear that this does not generalize to success in all aspects of gender processing, as the English and German learners also failed to respond in a native-like manner to gender in some forms of agreement (Foucart and Frenck-Mestre, 2011, 2012).”
WHEN GENDER AND LOOKING GO HAND IN HAND (2013, background): “Such converging results have important theoretical implications in that they support an experience-based view of acquisition and provide evidence for continued plasticity in the system, even for L2 learners such as our participants whose L1 lacks grammatical gender (Foucart & Frenck-Mestre, 2012 ).”
Parsing and Working Memory in Bilingual Sentence Processing (2016, unknown): “…L2 processing of different morphosyntactic agreement features (Alemán-Bañón, Fiorentino & Gabriele, 2014; Chen, Shu, Liu, Zhao & Li, 2007; Coughlin & Tremblay, 2013; Foote, 2011; Foucart & Frenck-Mestre, 2012; Jiang, 2004, 2007; Keating, 2009, 2010; Sagarra & Herschensohn, 2010, 2011, 2013).”
Morphosyntactic processing in advanced second language (L2) learners: An event-related potential investigation of the effects of L1–L2 similarity and structural distance (2014, background): “For example, Franceschina (2005) found that only nearnative speakers of Spanish whose L1 instantiates gender performed at native-like levels with Spanish gender agreement.”