Benedetta Bassetti
Biographic Data
| ID | 8985393 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Benedetta Bassetti |
| GIVEN NAMES | Benedetta |
| FAMILY NAME | Bassetti |
| SIGNATURE | BASSETTI B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of London and University of Oxford |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Cook, Vivian
Vivian James Cook (b. June 13, 1940 ‐ d. December 10, 2021) was an English applied linguist who investigated second language acquisition, and especially multicompetence. He held a Chair in Applied Linguistics at Newcastle University, UK.
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Bilingualism and thought: Grammatical gender and concepts of objects in Italian-German bilingual children
This paper investigates whether bilinguals' and monolinguals' concepts of entities differ when the bilinguals' two languages provide two different representations of the same entity. Previous research shows that speakers of languages that have a grammatical gender system think of objects as being masculine or feminine in line with the grammatical gender of the objects' nouns. The present study investigates the effects of grammatical gender on con…
Do bilinguals have different concepts? The case of shape and material in Japanese L2 users of English
An experiment investigated whether Japanese speakers' categorization of objects and substances by shape or material is influenced by acquiring English. Based on Imai and Gentner (1997), subjects were presented with an item such as a cork pyramid and asked to choose between two other items that matched it for shape (plastic pyramid) or for material (piece of cork). The hypotheses were that for simple objects the number of shape-based categorizatio…
Orthographic input and phonological representations in learners of Chinese as a foreign language
This paper provides evidence that the second language orthographic input affects the mental representations of L2 phonology in instructed beginner L2 learners. Previous research has shown that orthographic representations affect monolinguals’ performance in phonological awareness tasks; in instructed L2 learners such representations could also affect pronunciation. This study looked at the phonological representations of Chinese rimes in beginner…
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Do bilinguals have different concepts? The case of shape and material in Japanese L2 users of English
An experiment investigated whether Japanese speakers' categorization of objects and substances by shape or material is influenced by acquiring English. Based on Imai and Gentner (1997), subjects were presented with an item such as a cork pyramid and asked to choose between two other items that matched it for shape (plastic pyramid) or for material (piece of cork). The hypotheses were that for simple objects the number of shape-based categorizatio…
Orthographic input and phonological representations in learners of Chinese as a foreign language
This paper provides evidence that the second language orthographic input affects the mental representations of L2 phonology in instructed beginner L2 learners. Previous research has shown that orthographic representations affect monolinguals’ performance in phonological awareness tasks; in instructed L2 learners such representations could also affect pronunciation. This study looked at the phonological representations of Chinese rimes in beginner…
Bilingualism and thought: Grammatical gender and concepts of objects in Italian-German bilingual children
This paper investigates whether bilinguals' and monolinguals' concepts of entities differ when the bilinguals' two languages provide two different representations of the same entity. Previous research shows that speakers of languages that have a grammatical gender system think of objects as being masculine or feminine in line with the grammatical gender of the objects' nouns. The present study investigates the effects of grammatical gender on con…
Sound and Spelling
Spelling means representing a language in writing by using the letters of an alphabet according to conventions.
Cook, Vivian
Vivian James Cook (b. June 13, 1940 ‐ d. December 10, 2021) was an English applied linguist who investigated second language acquisition, and especially multicompetence. He held a Chair in Applied Linguistics at Newcastle University, UK.
Linguistics (5 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Categorization, perception, and language (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (2 works) · Orthography (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Reading and Literacy Development (2 works) · Acoustics (1 works) · Alphabet (1 works)