Cross-linguistic borrowing (overt use of words from the other language) and transfer (use of semantic or syntactic structures from the other language without active switching to that language) were examined during language production in Russian–English bilinguals. Grammatical category (noun/verb) and level of concreteness were found to influence language interaction. More cross-linguistic borro...

In this paper, we present a novel, cognitively motivated framework for modelling the cross-modal influence of visual scene context upon language processing. We illustrate how semantic relations in a knowledge representation of visual scene context can effect syntactic attachment modulations in a weightedconstraint dependency parser. In line with a central tenet of conceptual semantics, visual s...

The ability to distinguish between different types of arguments is central to syntactic analysis, whether studied from a theoretical or computational point of view. This thesis investigates the influence and interaction of linguistic properties of syntactic arguments in argument differentiation. Cross-linguistic generalizations regarding these properties often express probabilistic, or soft, co...

While bilingual children are said to differentiate their two languages as early as the babbling stage, this does not mean that the languages cannot influence one another. In fact, cross-linguistic interference is commonly found in bilingual first-language acquisition. In much of the literature on cross-linguistic interference, a child acquires the target uses of a given syntactic construction i...

The influence of phonological similarity on bilingual language processing was examined within and across languages in three experiments. Phonological similarity was manipulated within a language by varying neighborhood density, and across languages by varying extent of cross-linguistic overlap between native and non-native languages. In Experiment 1, speed and accuracy of bilinguals' picture na...