TY  - GEN
A1  - Verissimo, João Marques
T1  - Sensitive periods in both L1 and L2
BT  - Some conceptual and methodological suggestions
T2  - Bilingualism : language and cognition
N2  - The keynote article (Mayberry & Kluender, 2017) makes an important contribution to questions concerning the existence and characteristics of sensitive periods in language acquisition. Specifically, by comparing groups of non-native L1 and L2 signers, the authors have been able to ingeniously disentangle the effects of maturation from those of early language exposure. Based on L1 versus L2 contrasts, the paper convincingly argues that L2 learning is a less clear test of sensitive periods. Nevertheless, we believe Mayberry and Kluender underestimate the evidence for maturational factors in L2 learning, especially that coming from recent research.
KW  - critical period for language
KW  - sensitive periods
KW  - language acquisition
KW  - age of acquisition
KW  - bilingualism
Y1  - 2017
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728918000275
SN  - 1366-7289
SN  - 1469-1841
VL  - 21
IS  - 5
SP  - 932
EP  - 933
PB  - Cambridge Univ. Press
CY  - New York
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Clahsen, Harald
A1  - Verissimo, Joao Marques
T1  - Investigating grammatical processing in bilinguals The case of morphological priming
JF  - Linguistic approaches to bilingualism
N2  - In this article we discuss methods for investigating grammatical processing in bilinguals. We will present a methodological approach that relies on: (i) linguistic theory (in our case, morphology) for the construction of experimental materials; (ii) a design that allows for direct (within-experiment, within-participant, and within-item) comparisons of the critical conditions; and (iii) data analysis techniques that make both linear and non-linear gradient effects visible. We review recent studies of masked morphological priming in bilinguals in which the application of these methodological principles revealed highly selective interactions of age of acquisition (and the native/non-native contrast) with the linguistic distinction between inflection and derivation. We believe that such considerations are not only relevant for grammatical processing experiments, but also for studying bilingualism, and its potential cognitive advantages, more generally.
KW  - Morphological priming
KW  - inflection
KW  - derivation
KW  - age of acquisition
KW  - critical period
Y1  - 2016
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.15039.cla
SN  - 1879-9264
SN  - 1879-9272
VL  - 6
SP  - 685
EP  - 698
PB  - John Benjamins Publishing Co.
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  -