The role of L1 phonology in L2 morphological production: L2 English past tense production by L1 Spanish, Mandarin, and Japanese Speakers.

The data indicates that Norwegian L2 English speakers morphologically decompose as their first mechanism - while native English speakers employ a whole word look-up as their

Native and nonnative speakers (L1 Spanish) of English were tested using a lexical decision task with masked priming of the compound’s constituents in isolation, including

Object drop in L2 Spanish, (complex) feature reassembly, and L1 pre-emption 3 for native-like knowledge of dropped objects, learners of Spanish must associate the object clitic

reduplication to happen, output-to-output truncation must occur simultaneously. Hence, the following relations between phonological representations are at play in the processes

Parallel to this proposal, we believe that it is also helpful for teachers to know when not to focus on explicit classroom instruction, in the case of those properties that

Montrul, Dias and Santos (2011), in their study of object expression in L3 BP by L1 English/L2 Spanish and L1 Spanish/L2 English speakers, present results similar to those found

The traditional notion of case is too coarse to distinguish between the English prepositional dative and the English shifted dative, the Spanish bare accusative and the Spanish

Furthermore, in an L1 Spanish context, the presence of unconsciously perceived L2 English marked primes would automatically activate the orthotactic language nodes inhibiting L1