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BIDIRECTIONAL CROSSLINGUISTIC INFLUENCE IN L1-L2 ENCODING OF MANNER IN SPEECH AND GESTURE: A Study of Japanese Speakers of English

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2008

Amanda Brown  and
Marianne Gullberg
Amanda Brown
Affiliation:
Syracuse University
Marianne Gullberg
Affiliation:
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
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Abstract

Whereas most research in SLA assumes the relationship between the first language (L1) and the second language (L2) to be unidirectional, this study investigates the possibility of a bidirectional relationship. We examine the domain of manner of motion, in which monolingual Japanese and English speakers differ both in speech and gesture. Parallel influences of the L1 on the L2 and the L2 on the L1 were found in production from native Japanese speakers with intermediate knowledge of English. These effects, which were strongest in gesture patterns, demonstrate that (a) bidirectional interaction between languages in the multilingual mind can occur even with intermediate proficiency in the L2 and (b) gesture analyses can offer insights on interactions between languages beyond those observed through analyses of speech alone.We gratefully acknowledge technical and financial support from the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics and the Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek (NWO; MPI 56-384, The Dynamics of Multilingual Processing, awarded to M. Gullberg and P. Indefrey). We would also like to thank two anonymous SSLA reviewers for their useful comments.

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Studies in Second Language Acquisition , Volume 30 , Issue 2 , June 2008 , pp. 225 - 251
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© 2008 Cambridge University Press

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