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Applying the Competition Model to bilingualism
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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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“In these ways, unconscious learning processes, which occur automatically during language usage, are necessary in developing the rationality of fluency”
From AT THE INTERFACE: DYNAMIC INTERACTIONS OF EXPLICIT AND IMPLICIT LANGUAGE KNOWLEDGE (2005) · cites this paper as MacWhinney, 1987b
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“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).”
From Effects of Availability, Contingency, and Formulaicity on the Accuracy of English Grammatical Morphemes in Second Language Writing (2022) · cites this paper as MacWhinney, 1987
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Metadata
- Authors
- Macwhinney, B.
- Affiliations
- Carnegie Mellon University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Macwhinney, Brian
- ORCID
- Macwhinney, Brian
- Venue
- Applied Psycholinguistics
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- 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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