Nya publikationer i Tvåspråkighet / New publications in Bilingualism, 2019
LÄNKARNA NEDAN leder till publikationsdatabasen DiVA. / THE LINKS BELOW lead to the publication database DiVA, where the pages will show in Swedish – but you can easily switch to English.
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Probing the Internal Validity of the LLAMA Language Aptitude Tests
Over the past decade, the LLAMA language aptitude test battery has come to play an increasingly important role as an instrument in research on individual differences in language development. However, a potentially serious problem that has been pointed out by several scholars is that the LLAMA has not yet been carefully valida...
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Lexikalische Kompetenzen von Kindern der Grundstufe I
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Changing expectations mediate adaptation in L2 production
Native language (L1) processing draws on implicit expectations. An open question is whether non-native learners of a second language (L2) similarly draw on expectations, and whether these expectations are based on learners’ L1 or L2 knowledge. We approach this question by studying inverse preference effects on lexical encodin...
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Language background affects online word order processing in a second language but not offline
This study examines possible crosslinguistic influence on basic word order processing in a second language (L2). Targeting Swedish V2 word order we investigate adult German learners (+V2 in the L1) and English learners (-V2 in the L1) of Swedish who are matched for proficiency. We report results from two offline behavioural t...
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Being a participant matters: Event-related potentials show that markedness modulates person agreement in Spanish
The present study uses event‑related potentials to examine subject‑verb person agreement in Spanish, with a focus on how markedness with respect to the speech participant status of the subject modulates processing. Morphological theory proposes a markedness distinction between first and second person, on the one hand, and thi...
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The Impact of Mother Tongue Instruction on the Development of Biliteracy
This study investigates if participation in mother tongue instruction (henceforth MTI) impacts the biliteracy proficiency of young bilinguals, drawing on examples from Somali–Swedish bilinguals and Somali MTI in a Swedish school context. In the study, biliteracy was operationalized as reading proficiency and vocabulary knowle...
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Language use and investment among children and adolescents of Somali heritage in Sweden
This article explores language use and investment among Somali-speaking children and adolescents in Sweden, through group interviews and survey data. Our findings indicate that there are incentives to invest in Somali language learning considering the reported language use patterns and the expressed positive attitudes towards...
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Revisiting the bilingual lexical deficit
Whereas the cognitive advantages brought about by bilingualism have recently been called into question, the socalled‘lexical deficit’ in bilinguals is still largely taken for granted. Here, we argue that, in analogy with cognitiveadvantages, the lexical deficit does not apply across the board of bilinguals, but varies as a fu...
