On the evidence for maturational constraints in second-language acquisition

By David Birdsong, Michelle R. Molis. 2001

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Language and Linguistics, Literature and Literary Theory

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Long-term language attainment of bilingual immigrants: Predictive variables and language group differences (2002, background): “When other background variables of L2 acquisition were matched, Spanish–English bilinguals showed a higher level of long-term L2 attainment and a weaker AOA effect than Chinese–English2 or Vietnamese–English bilinguals (Bialystok & Miller, 1999; Birdsong & Molis, 2001; McDonald, 2000).”
What Sign Language Reveals about the Critical Period for Language (2009, methodology): “Factors such as the amount of education in the L2, and the linguistic relationship of the L1 and L2 also predict L2 outcome (Birdsong & Molis, 2001; Flege, Yeni-Komshian, & Liu, 1999).”
Different speakers, different grammars: Individual differences in native language attainment (2012, background): “A large number of studies comparing native and near-native L2 speakers have found age of acquisition effects (Birdsong 1992, 2004, 2006, Birdsong and Molis 2001, Coppieters 1987, Flege, Yeni-Komshian and Liu 1999, Johnson and Newport 1989): later L2 learners, particularly those who were exposed to…”
Neurolinguistic aspects of attrition (2004, background): “This assumption has been challenged by many authors, which has enabled the evidencing of some cases of nativelike ultimate attainment in late bilinguals (see Birdsong & Molis, 2001, for more details).”
Taboo words and reprimands elicit greater autonomic reactivity in a first language than in a second language (2003, background): “For example, Birdsong and Molis (2001) found that the age of arrival in the United States was the strongest predictor of English proficiency for immigrants from Spanish-speaking countries.”
Temporal dynamics of late second language acquisition: evidence from event-related brain potentials (2009, background): “…the predicted discon - tinuity of AoA effects after the postulated critical period (Johnson and Newport, 1989), others have observed a monotonous AoA function incompatible with the claim of a critical period for language learning (Flege, 1999; Birdsong and Molis, 2001; Hakuta et al., 2003).”
AGE OF ONSET AND NATIVELIKE L2 ULTIMATE ATTAINMENT OF MORPHOSYNTACTIC AND PHONETIC INTUITION (2012, background): “…performed within the native-speaker range on a GJT. Additionally, several replications of the Johnson and Newport study have reported on some late learners whose grammaticality judgment scores fall within the range of native controls (e.g., Birdsong & Molis, 2001 ; Flege et al., 1999 ).”
Bilingual Speakers in the Lab: Psychophysiological Measures of Emotional Reactivity (2004, background): “Other researchers have studied these factors and have concluded that age of arrival is the most important for ultimate attainment of native-like speaking abilities (Birdsong & Molis, 2001).”
Cross-linguistic evidence for the nature of age effects in second language acquisition (2010, background): “…a negative correlation between age of acquisition and ultimate attainment throughout the life span (Bialystok & Hakuta, 1999; Bialystok & Miller, 1999; Hakuta, Bialystok, & Wiley, 2003) or even a stronger negative correlation in adulthood than in childhood or adolescence (Birdsong & Molis, 2001).”
Second language speech production: Investigating linguistic correlates of comprehensibility and accentedness for learners at different ability levels (2016, background): “Although adult L2 speakers can perform at nativelike levels in terms of L2 vocabulary and grammar (e.g., Birdsong & Molis, 2001), they often fail to master nativelike pronunciation (e.g., Flege, Yeni-Komshian, & Liu, 1999), with such learning difficulties being most pronounced for segmentals…”
The syntax–discourse interface in near-native L2 acquisition: Off-line and on-line performance* (2009, background): “Early studies addressed this question by investigating whether L2 speakers could reach nativespeaker performance in general L2 proficiency (e.g. Scovel, 1988; Johnson and Newport, 1989; DeKeyser, 2000; Birdsong and Molis, 2001), yielding mixed results.”
THE ROLES OF PHONOLOGICAL SHORT-TERM MEMORY AND WORKING MEMORY IN L2 GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY LEARNING (2012, neutral): “Individual differences in many domains, including motivation (Fan, 2003; Sanaoui, 1995), age (Birdsong & Molis, 2001; Johnson & Newport, 1989), working memory (WM; Harrington & Sawyer, 1992; Sunderman & Kroll, 2009), and phonological short-term memory (PSTM; Gathercole & Baddeley, 1993; Service,…”
COMPETENCE SIMILARITIES BETWEEN NATIVE AND NEAR-NATIVE SPEAKERS (2003, background): “…perhaps after puberty), after which adult L2 learners are not likely to attain complete nativelike competence in the L2 phonology or morphosyntax (Birdsong & Molis, 2001; Bley-Vroman, 1990; Coppieters, 1987; DeKeyser, 2000; Hyltenstam & Abrahamsson, 2000; Johnson & Newport, 1989, 1991;…”
Brain Mechanisms in Early Language Acquisition (2010, background): “…agreement that this learning curve is representative of data across a wide variety of second-language learning studies (Bialystok and Hakuta, 1994; Birdsong and Molis, 2001; Flege et al., 1999; Johnson and Newport, 1989; Kuhl et al., 2005a, 2008; Mayberry and Lock, 2003; Neville et al., 1997;…”