Patti Spinner
List of John Benjamins publications for which Patti Spinner plays a role.
Articles
2019 Chapter 3. Productive and receptive processes in PT Widening Contexts for Processability Theory: Theories and issues, Lenzing, Anke, Howard Nicholas and Jana Roos (eds.), pp. 49–72 | Chapter
In this study, we investigate whether Processability Theory (Pienemann, 1998, 2005) accounts for reception data, and whether productive and receptive processing routines emerge simultaneously. Sixty-one learners of English as a second language (ESL learners) participate in an oral interview and… read more
2018 Gender and number processing in second language Swahili Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 8:4, pp. 446–476 | Article
For native speakers, congruent gender marking on determiners and adjectives facilitates recognition of subsequent nouns, while incongruent marking inhibits recognition (e.g., Bates et al., 1996). However, there is conflicting evidence regarding whether second language learners demonstrate this… read more