Another Type of Bilingual Advantage? Tense-Mood-Aspect Frequency, Verb-Form Regularity and Context-Governed Choice in Bilingual vs. Monolingual Spanish Speakers with Agrammatism

Another Type of Bilingual Advantage? Tense-Mood-Aspect Frequency, Verb-Form Regularity and Context-Governed Choice in Bilingual vs. Monolingual Spanish Speakers with Agrammatism

Introduction: This study asks whether Spanish-English bilinguals with agrammatism perform better than comparable monolingual Spanish speakers on a test of copular verb production. We chose the Spanish dual-copula system, because its two copula verbs: ser and estar (meaning ‘be’ in English), differ...

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Main Authors: Barbara Ann O'Connor Wells, Loraine K Obler
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-04-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
Subjects:
bilingualism
agrammatism
agrammatic aphasia
Verb Production
spanish Agrammatism
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/conf.fpsyg.2014.64.00060/full

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