This paper attempts to shed light on the question of what in the input is perceived and processed by the learner, and how it is processed upon first contact with a target language. Subjects were French learners of Polish who had had no contact with Polish or any other Slavic language before the onset of the project. They were tested on a sentence repetition task before receiving any Polish instruction, after 4 hours of instruction, and again after 8 hours. The results suggest that even as little as 8 hours of exposure induces a recognizable interlanguage; that the influence of global input can be predicted by word length, word stress, phonemic distance, transparency, position and frequency; and that the role these factors play evolves over time. Together the results suggest a way to characterise the notion of saliency in the input.
2022. Language Control and Intra-Sentential Codeswitching among Bilingual Children with and without Developmental Language Disorder. Languages 7:4 ► pp. 249 ff.
Bordag, Denisa, Amit Kirschenbaum, Maria Rogahn & Erwin Tschirner
2017. The role of orthotactic probability in incidental and intentional vocabulary acquisition L1 and L2. Second Language Research 33:2 ► pp. 147 ff.
2015. Effect of visual support on the processing of multiclausal sentences. Language Teaching Research 19:4 ► pp. 455 ff.
Carroll, Susanne E
2013. Introduction to the special issue: Aspects of word learning on first exposure to a second language. Second Language Research 29:2 ► pp. 131 ff.
Carroll, Susanne E. & Elizabeth (Nina) Widjaja
2013. Learning exponents of number on first exposure to an L2. Second Language Research 29:2 ► pp. 201 ff.
Shoemaker, Ellenor & Rebekah Rast
2013. Extracting words from the speech stream at first exposure. Second Language Research 29:2 ► pp. 165 ff.
Rast, Rebekah
2006. Le premier contact avec une nouvelle langue étrangère : comment s’acquitter d’une tâche de compréhension ?. Acquisition et interaction en langue étrangère :24 ► pp. 119 ff.
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