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Applying the Competition Model to bilingualism

Macwhinney, Brian·1987·Applied Psycholinguistics

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This special issue brings together a set of four papers devoted to the experimental study of sentence processing by bilinguals in their second language. The basic finding reported in this research is that, in many cases, learners transfer their LI sentence processing strategies onto sentence processing in L2. Moreover, the influence of this transfer can be detected in weakened form even in fluent bilinguals who have spoken L2 for many years. In effect, these studies report on a kind of comprehension analog to “foreign accent” that first came to light during work on sentence comprehension within the framework of the Competition Model of Bates and MacWhinney (1982).

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  • Unconscious learning processes occur automatically during language usage and are necessary in developing the rationality of fluency.

    “In these ways, unconscious learning processes, which occur automatically during language usage, are necessary in developing the rationality of fluency”
  • Contingency learning is central to the competition model, a psycholinguistic theory of language acquisition and sentence processing.

    “Contingency learning is central to the competition model, a psycholinguistic theory of language acquisition and sentence processing (MacWhinney, 1987;MacWhinney & Bates, 1989), as well as to other psycholinguistic models of construction learning such as the rational learning of form-function contingencies (N.C. Ellis, 2006).”

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Authors
Macwhinney, B.
Affiliations
Carnegie Mellon University (US)
Corresponding author
Macwhinney, Brian
Venue
Applied Psycholinguistics
Published
1987-12
Volume
8
Issue
4
Pages
315-327
ISSN
  • 0142-7164 (ISSN-L)
  • 1469-1817
OpenAlex
W1970798168
Cited by
142
References
36
Citations by year
2026: 3 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 5 · 2019: 4 · 2018: 7 · 2017: 6 · 2016: 3 · 2015: 6 · 2014: 4 · 2013: 6 · 2012: 2
FWCI
1.77
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
Applied Psycholinguistics (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Language Development and Disorders
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Phonetics and Phonology Research
Keywords
bilingual sentence processing, competition model, language transfer, first language influence, second language comprehension, foreign accent, bilingualism

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