Christie Brien

List of John Benjamins publications for which Christie Brien plays a role.

Articles

Sabourin, Laura L., Michèle Burkholder, Santa Vīnerte, Jean-Christophe Leclerc and Christie Brien 2016 Language processing in bilinguals: Evidence from lexical organization and cognitive controlEUROSLA Yearbook: Volume 16 (2016), Liszka, Sarah Ann, Pascale Leclercq, Marion Tellier and Georges Daniel Véronique (eds.), pp. 1–24 | Article
In this paper we integrate and reinterpret new data from a set of experiments in our lab in order to tease apart many of the factors thought to influence bilingual processing. Specifically we combine data from studies investigating age of immersion (AoI), manner of acquisition (MoA), proficiency… read more
Sabourin, Laura L., Christie Brien and Marie-Claude Tremblay 2013 Chapter 11. Electrophysiology of second language processing: The past, present and futureContemporary Approaches to Second Language Acquisition, García Mayo, María del Pilar, María Juncal Gutiérrez Mangado and María Martínez-Adrián (eds.), pp. 221–242 | Chapter
This chapter reviews past and current contributions from event-related brain potential (ERP) research to the field of L2 processing. ERPs are able to measure cognitive brain processes at a very fine-grained temporal resolution and allow for determining when linguistic processes are occurring. The… read more
Brien, Christie and Laura L. Sabourin 2012 Second language effects on ambiguity resolution in the first languageEUROSLA Yearbook: Volume 12 (2012), Roberts, Leah, Christina Lindqvist, Camilla Bardel and Niclas Abrahamsson (eds.), pp. 191–217 | Article
The processing of homonyms is complex considering homonyms have many lexical properties. For instance, train contains semantic (a locomotive/to instruct) and syntactic (noun/verb) properties, each affecting interpretation. Previous studies find homonym processing influenced by lexical frequency… read more