Janet L. Nicol
List of John Benjamins publications for which Janet L. Nicol plays a role.
Articles
2021 Lexical selection in bilingual language production: Evidence from a picture-naming task Studies of Bilingual Processing Presented to Kenneth I. Forster, Jiang, Nan (ed.), pp. 268–292 | Article
The goal of this study is to examine whether bilingual speakers can inhibit one language while naming pictures in the other. In two picture-word interference task experiments, Spanish-English and English-Spanish bilinguals named pictures in Spanish. We used language-neutral (nonword) interfering… read more
2018 Effects of second language proficiency and working memory span on novel language learning Journal of Second Language Studies 1:1, pp. 79–105 | Article
In this paper we examine the effects of prior language learning experience and working memory capacity on learning a novel language. Participants with a range of proficiency in a second language were trained on a third language. They were presented with 20 Turkish words (to test word-learning)… read more
2009 6. The effect of case marking on subject-verb agreement errors in English Time and Again: Theoretical perspectives on formal linguistics, Lewis, William D., Simin Karimi, Heidi Harley and Scott O. Farrar (eds.), pp. 135–150 | Article
It is commonly assumed that the occurrence and distribution of processing errors offer a “window” into the architecture of cognitive processors. In recent years, psycholinguists have drawn inferences about syntactic encoding processes in language production by examining the distribution and rate of… read more