Second Language Acquisition and Ultimate Attainment

By David Birdsong. 2008

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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…”
Cross-language effects of grammatical gender in bilingual word recognition and production (2008, background): “More generally, the present study shows that monolingual concepts of syntactic processing are not always appropriate for bilinguals, and new psycholinguistic models and approaches have to be developed that take the unstable, variable and ‘probabilistic’ (Birdsong, 2004) nature of L2 representations ”
Cross-linguistic evidence for the nature of age effects in second language acquisition (2010, background): “…adulthood; they contradict the claims that there is no quantitative evidence of a critical period because there is no discontinuity in the decline (e.g., Birdsong, 2004, 2005, 2006; Hakuta et al., 2003) or because there is no evidence of qualitative differences as a function of age (Hakuta, 2001).”
Hi-LAB: A New Measure of Aptitude for High-Level Language Proficiency (2013, background): “However, measuring ultimate attainment is difficult, in part, because it is unclear if there is any one point when a learner can be considered to have reached such an asymptote in learning (Birdsong, 2004; Long, 2003).”