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Susceptibility to interference: underlying mechanisms, and implications for prediction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 September 2016

EDITH KAAN
EDITH KAAN*
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University of Florida
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Address for correspondence: Dr Edith Kaan, University of Florida, Linguistics, Box 115454 Gainesville, Florida, United StatesFl 32611, [email protected]
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Over the years, models proposed for second-language (L2) processing have been remarkably parallel to those proposed for Broca's aphasia. Differences between agrammatic and unaffected language processing have been explained, e.g., in terms of lack of detailed syntactic structure building (Grodzinsky, 1995), resource deficits (Haarman, Just & Carpenter, 1997), slow syntactic processing (Burkhardt, Avrutin, Piñango & Ruigendijk, 2008), or slowed lexical access (Love, Swinney, Walenski & Zurif, 2008). Each of these approaches have their homolog in L2 processing (e.g., Clahsen & Felser, 2006; McDonald, 2006; Dekydtspotter, Schwartz & Sprouse, 2006; Hopp, 2013, respectively). It is therefore not surprising that Cunnings's proposal (Cunnings, 2016) parallels another idea in aphasia and aging research, namely that deviations from healthy young adult monolingual sentence processing can be attributed to an increased susceptibility to interference (e.g., Sheppard, Walenski, Love & Shapiro, 2015).

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Bilingualism: Language and Cognition , Volume 20 , Issue 4 , August 2017 , pp. 696 - 697
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