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Title: | Do speakers of Dutch use their knowledge of German while processing written Danish words? | Contributor(s): | Swarte, Femke (author); Schuppert, Anja (author); Gooskens, Charlotte (author) | Publication Date: | 2013 | Open Access: | Yes | DOI: | 10.1075/avt.30.11swa | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/20671 | Abstract: | This paper elaborates on a factor that plays a role in receptive multilingualism, namely the influence of a second language (L2). We investigated whether knowledge of German can help Dutch people to decode written Danish words when they do not know any Danish. We instructed 32 participants with Dutch as a native language (L1) and different levels of proficiency in German as an L2 to translate 42 written Danish words into Dutch. The results showed that participants with a higher level of German performed better on this translation task. Furthermore, our data provides evidence for the existence of a 'foreign language mode', i.e. the knowledge of German as an L2 seems to take over from the knowledge of the L1 if the participants' proficiency in German is high. | Publication Type: | Journal Article | Source of Publication: | Linguistics in the Netherlands, 30(1), p. 146-159 | Publisher: | John Benjamins Publishing Co | Place of Publication: | Netherlands | ISSN: | 1569-9919 0929-7332 |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 200310 Other European Languages | Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 470319 Other European languages | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 950201 Communication Across Languages and Culture | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 130201 Communication across languages and culture | Peer Reviewed: | Yes | HERDC Category Description: | C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal |
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