Bilinguals’ sensitivity to specificity and genericity: evidence from implicit and explicit knowledge

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• What: This paper investigates whether school-aged French-English bilingual children`s implicit and explicit knowledge of article use is affected by cross-linguistic influence (CLI) during online and offline sentence comprehension. The studies focus on the encoding of plural and mass nouns in specific and generic contexts. The aim of this studies was to contribute to the general understanding of mechanisms at play during the online and offline processing of local markers of genericity and specificity. While the study provides further experimental evidence supporting recent work establishing a direct relationship between individual measures of input quantity . . .
  

   

  

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