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Can Bilinguals See It Coming? Word Anticipation in L2 Sentence Reading

dc.contributor.authorFoucart, Alice
dc.contributor.authorMartin, Clara D.
dc.contributor.authorCosta, Albert
dc.contributor.authorMoreno Bella, Eva
dc.date.accessioned2024-05-20T11:54:18Z
dc.date.available2024-05-20T11:54:18Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.description.abstractWhy is it more difficult to comprehend a 2nd (L2) than a 1st language (L1)? In the present article we investigate whether difficulties during L2 sentence comprehension come from differences in the way L1 and L2 speakers anticipate upcoming words. We recorded the brain activity (event-related potentials) of Spanish monolinguals, French-Spanish late bilinguals, and Spanish-Catalan early bilinguals while reading sentences in Spanish. We manipulated the ending of highly constrained sentences so that the critical noun was either expected or not. The expected and unexpected nouns were of different gender so that we could observe potential anticipation effects already on the article. In line with previous studies, a modulation of the N400 effect was observed on the article and the noun, followed by an anterior positivity on the noun. Importantly, this pattern was found in all 3 groups, suggesting that, at least when their 2 languages are closely related, bilinguals are able to anticipate upcoming words in a similar manner as monolinguals.en
dc.description.versionversión final
dc.identifier.doihttp://doi.org/10.1037/a0036756
dc.identifier.issn1939-1285
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14468/12695
dc.journal.issueNo. 5
dc.journal.titleJournal of Experimental Psychology
dc.journal.volumeVol. 40
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherAmerican Psychological Association
dc.relation.centerFacultad de Psicología
dc.relation.departmentPsicología Evolutiva y de la Educación
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/embargoedAccess
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
dc.subject.keywordsword anticipation
dc.subject.keywordssemantic processing
dc.subject.keywordsgrammatical gender
dc.subject.keywordsbilingualism
dc.titleCan Bilinguals See It Coming? Word Anticipation in L2 Sentence Readinges
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