Alice Foucart

Moreno, Eva M., Clara D. Martin and Alice Foucart 2023 Chapter 6. Lexical anticipation in bilinguals Bilingualism through the Prism of Psycholinguistics: In honour of Albert Costa, Santesteban, Mikel, Jon Andoni Duñabeitia and Cristina Baus (eds.), pp. 181–204 | Chapter

This chapter aims to acknowledge Prof. Albert Costa’s contribution to the research field of language anticipation in L2 readers/listeners. It starts with a brief introduction to contrasting psycholinguistic models regarding the issue of lexical pre-activation during language comprehension and it… read more

Foucart, Alice 2021 Chapter 5. Language prediction in second language: Does language similarity matter? Prediction in Second Language Processing and Learning, Kaan, Edith and Theres Grüter (eds.), pp. 91–114 | Chapter

It is currently accepted that native speakers regularly predict upcoming elements during language comprehension. Empirical evidence suggests that the ability to predict is not as stable in a second language (L2) compared to the first language (L1). One factor that may affect prediction in an L2… read more

Foucart, Alice 2015 Prediction is a question of experience Epistemological issue with keynote article “The role of language processing in language acquisition” by Colin Phillips and Lara Ehrenhofer, pp. 465–469 | Commentary

Frenck-Mestre, Cheryl, Haydee Carrasco-Ortiz, Judith McLaughlin, Lee Osterhout and Alice Foucart 2010 Linguistic input factors in native and L2 processing of inflectional morphology: Evidence from ERPs and behavioral studies The Processing of Input in Second Language Acquisition / Le traitement de l'input dans l'acquisition des langues étrangères, Véronique, Georges Daniel (ed.), pp. 206–228 | Article

Numerous studies have examined the processing of inflectional morphology by second language learners, with the underlying aim of determining whether native-like processing can ever be attained. Indeed, this is an area where L2 speakers show notorious deficits, in contrast to the achievement of… read more

Frenck-Mestre, Cheryl, Alice Foucart, Haydee Carrasco-Ortiz and Julia Herschensohn 2009 Processing of grammatical gender in French as a first and second language: Evidence from ERPs EUROSLA Yearbook: Volume 9 (2009), Roberts, Leah, Georges Daniel Véronique, Anna Nilsson and Marion Tellier (eds.), pp. 76–106 | Article

The present study examined the processing of grammatical gender in second language (L2) French as a function of language background (Experiment 1) and as a function of overt phonetic properties of agreement (Experiment 2) by examining Event Related Potential (ERP) responses to gender discord in L2… read more

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