In Tokyo Japanese, vowel devoicing is a common process, that leads to the reduction of high, unstressed vowels ( and ) between unvoiced consonants. This article investigates to what extent native Japanese speakers (L1) learning German as foreign language (L2) show a strong tendency to produce these vowels in the foreign language as devoiced, too. Furthermore, the question is addressed whe...

People think about spatial frames of reference (FoRs) in accord with the spatial system of their native language. It has been claimed that this correlation reflects a causal influence of language on thought. We tested this claim. Earlier studies have shown that whereas English speakers favor an egocentric FoR, there is a pre-linguistic predisposition favoring a geocentric FoR. We reasoned that ...

In this paper, we show that adult listeners who speak the same native language but live in different linguistic environments differ in their use of prosodic cues that signal word boundaries in the native language. Non-utterance-final word-final syllables have higher fundamental frequency in French. Adult native French listeners living in France or in the US completed an artificial-language segm...

Computer programming today is far too dependent on one particular natural language, namely English. Mathematics is not dependent on English, and programming should not be, either. In order to eliminate the dependence of programming on English, we have constructed a programming language in which the keywords are replaced by symbols available on standard keyboards. Each of these symbols is chosen...

The paper proposes methodology of teaching argumentative essay to the Adyghe- Russian bilingual students. article considers problem native language interference, analyzes typical mistakes made by Adyghe-Russian students in Unified State Exam, justifies necessity use special methodological techniques (comprehensive text analysis, writing a short essay) which allow training for Exam essay. author...

This paper describes how grammars of native languages can be used is tutoring systems to facilitate instruction in a second language. The grammar functions as a user model, which enables the system to customise its responses by addressing problems that may be due to interference from the native language. Its correction strategy is based upoa comparison of the native language model wi th a model...

background: bilingual individuals reported that they experience more intensive emotions in native language. this study tries to investigate this claim psychophysiologicaly. the effect of age and second language acquisition context on physiological appearances of first and second languages were also investigated.   methods: 60turkish and kurdish bilinguals were explored. the emotional stimuli em...