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Experimental evidence suggests that speaker and addressee quickly adapt to each other from the earliest moments of sentence processing, and that interlocutor-related information is rapidly integrated with other sources of nonpragmatic information (e.g., semantic, morphosyntactic, etc.). These findings have been taken as support for one-step models...
Information about interlocutor identity is pragmatic in nature and has traditionally been distinguished from explicitly coded linguistic information, including mophosyntax. Study of speaker identity in language processing has questioned this distinction, but addressee identity has been less considered. We used Basque to explore how addressee identi...
Despite the importance of prosodic processing in utterance parsing, a majority of studies investigating boundary localization in a second language focus on word segmentation. The goal of the present study was to investigate the parsing of phrase boundaries in first and second languages from different prosodic typologies (stress-timed vs. syllable-t...
Le présent article vise à évaluer si la vie dans des environnements linguistiques mixtes confère un avantage aux locuteurs d’une langue seconde (L2) et à déterminer si cet avantage est observable à tous les niveaux de compétence linguistique. À cette fin, nous avons réanalysé un sous-ensemble de données de Gilbert et al. (2019) en considérant les s...
Mandarin Chinese is typologically unusual among the world’s languages in having flexible word order despite a near absence of inflectional morphology. These features of Mandarin challenge conventional linguistic notions such as subject and object and the divide between syntax and semantics. In the present study, we tested monolingual processing of...
How languages are processed and represented in our brains has been extensively explored in the field of cognitive and neurocognitive science (Carreiras 2010; Faust 2012). However, there is a lack of comprehensive review of second language (L2) processing, particularly in the fields of L2 acquisition and applied linguistics. Jiang’s (2018) Second La...
Mandarin Chinese is typologically unusual among the world’s languages in having flexible word order despite a near absence of inflectional morphology. These features of Mandarin challenge conventional linguistic notions such as subject and object and the divide between syntax and semantics. In the present study, we tested monolingual processing of...
The rules governing adjective-noun order vary crosslinguistically, and event-related potentials have shown that violations of these rules elicit biphasic responses in native speakers and advanced non-native learners. We built on prior findings by replicating an English experiment and running a new experiment in Mandarin. In the replication, we test...
Previous studies of word segmentation in a second language have yielded equivocal results. This is not surprising given the differences in the bilingual experience and proficiency of the participants and the varied experimental designs that have been used. The present study tried to account for a number of relevant variables to determine if bilingu...
Late learners of Mandarin (L1 is English) can obtain qualitative native-like profiencey in processing mechansim of Mandarin sentences .
Poster presented at the LiveMEEG Virtual Conference.
Despite the significant impact of prosody on L2 speakers' intelligibility, few studies have examined the production of prosodic cues associated with word segmentation in non-native or non-dominant languages. Here, 62 French-English bilingual adults, who varied in L1 (French or English) and language dominance, produced sentences built around syllabl...
This poster presents preliminary analysis of Mandarin monolinguals' processing of noun-noun-verb sentences with and without the coverbs BA and BEI. Online behavioral judgments show that without BA and BEI, conceptual knowledge of semantic roles drives actor assignment. Additionally, in the absence of any cues, participants showed no preference for...
Poster presented at the Annual meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society (2018)
Poster presented at the Annual meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language (2017)
Adapting one’s production of prosodic cues to a second or non-dominant language
can be difficult. The present study focuses on French-English bilinguals’ ability to
adapt their prosody to coordinate phrase-final lengthening and lexical stress.
Because French has no lexically-coded prosody, it might be difficult for Frenchdominant
speakers to simult...
Interlocutor’s identity has a strong impact not only on what we will say but also on how we will convey information. However, the impact of the addressee on the analysis of an utterance is still unclear. The present behavioral study will shed light on this issue investigating the case of Basque allocutives, where the verb needs to agree with the se...
Kes1, and other oxysterol-binding protein superfamily members, are involved in membrane and lipid trafficking through trans-Golgi network (TGN) and endosomal systems. We demonstrate that Kes1 represents a sterol-regulated antagonist of TGN/endosomal phosphatidylinositol-4-phosphate signaling. This regulation modulates TOR activation by amino acids...
