Going Native? Yes, If Allowed by Cross-Linguistic Similarity

Can native competence be achieved in a second language? Here, we focus on the Language Distance Hypothesis that claims that early and proficient bilinguals can achieve native competence for grammatical properties shared by their two languages, whereas unshared grammatical properties pose a challenge...

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Autores principales:	Gillen Martínez de la Hidalga, Adam Zawiszewski, Itziar Laka
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Publicado:	Frontiers Media S.A. 2021
Materias:	non-native language processing event-relate potentials unergative vs. unaccusative predicates subject-verb agreement phi-features bilingualism Psychology BF1-990
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:cea28542fd2c4b6d88621a3f9f7f0b082021-11-10T06:12:29ZGoing Native? Yes, If Allowed by Cross-Linguistic Similarity1664-107810.3389/fpsyg.2021.742127https://doaj.org/article/cea28542fd2c4b6d88621a3f9f7f0b082021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.742127/fullhttps://doaj.org/toc/1664-1078Can native competence be achieved in a second language? Here, we focus on the Language Distance Hypothesis that claims that early and proficient bilinguals can achieve native competence for grammatical properties shared by their two languages, whereas unshared grammatical properties pose a challenge for native-like syntactic processing. We present a novel behavioral and Event-Related Potential (ERP) study where early and proficient bilinguals behave native-like in their second language when processing (a) argument structure alternations in intransitive sentences involving agent vs. patient subjects and (b) subject verb agreement, both of which are grammatical properties shared by their two languages of these bilinguals. Compared to native Basque bilinguals (L2Spanish) on the same tasks, non-natives elicited similar sentence processing measures: (a) in the acceptability task they reacted faster and more accurately to unaccusative sentences than to unergatives and to person than number violations: (b) they generated a larger P600 for agreement violations in unaccusative sentences than unergatives; (c) they generated larger negativity and positivity effects for person than for number violations. Previous studies on Basque-Spanish bilinguals find that early and proficient non-natives display effects distinct from natives in both languages when processing grammatical properties where Basque and Spanish diverge, such as argument alignment (ergative/nominative) or word order type (OV/VO), but they perform native-like for shared properties such as subject agreement and word meaning. We contend that language distance, that is, the degree of similarity of the languages of the bilingual is a crucial factor that deserves further and detailed attention to advance our understanding of when and how bilinguals can go native in a second language.Gillen Martínez de la HidalgaAdam ZawiszewskiItziar LakaFrontiers Media S.A.articlenon-native language processingevent-relate potentialsunergative vs. unaccusative predicatessubject-verb agreementphi-featuresbilingualismPsychologyBF1-990ENFrontiers in Psychology, Vol 12 (2021)
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topic	non-native language processing event-relate potentials unergative vs. unaccusative predicates subject-verb agreement phi-features bilingualism Psychology BF1-990
spellingShingle	non-native language processing event-relate potentials unergative vs. unaccusative predicates subject-verb agreement phi-features bilingualism Psychology BF1-990 Gillen Martínez de la Hidalga Adam Zawiszewski Itziar Laka Going Native? Yes, If Allowed by Cross-Linguistic Similarity
description	Can native competence be achieved in a second language? Here, we focus on the Language Distance Hypothesis that claims that early and proficient bilinguals can achieve native competence for grammatical properties shared by their two languages, whereas unshared grammatical properties pose a challenge for native-like syntactic processing. We present a novel behavioral and Event-Related Potential (ERP) study where early and proficient bilinguals behave native-like in their second language when processing (a) argument structure alternations in intransitive sentences involving agent vs. patient subjects and (b) subject verb agreement, both of which are grammatical properties shared by their two languages of these bilinguals. Compared to native Basque bilinguals (L2Spanish) on the same tasks, non-natives elicited similar sentence processing measures: (a) in the acceptability task they reacted faster and more accurately to unaccusative sentences than to unergatives and to person than number violations: (b) they generated a larger P600 for agreement violations in unaccusative sentences than unergatives; (c) they generated larger negativity and positivity effects for person than for number violations. Previous studies on Basque-Spanish bilinguals find that early and proficient non-natives display effects distinct from natives in both languages when processing grammatical properties where Basque and Spanish diverge, such as argument alignment (ergative/nominative) or word order type (OV/VO), but they perform native-like for shared properties such as subject agreement and word meaning. We contend that language distance, that is, the degree of similarity of the languages of the bilingual is a crucial factor that deserves further and detailed attention to advance our understanding of when and how bilinguals can go native in a second language.
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title	Going Native? Yes, If Allowed by Cross-Linguistic Similarity
title_short	Going Native? Yes, If Allowed by Cross-Linguistic Similarity
title_full	Going Native? Yes, If Allowed by Cross-Linguistic Similarity
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Going Native? Yes, If Allowed by Cross-Linguistic Similarity

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