Nuria Sagarra
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1691815 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Nuria Sagarra |
| PRENOMES | Nuria |
| SOBRENOME | Sagarra |
| ASSINATURA | SAGARRA N |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9820-3935 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 15 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 60 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2007 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Working Memory in Second Language Research
Working memory (WM) plays a prominent role in SLA because adult SLA requires additional computation and activation, which in turn imposes extra load on WM resources. This article offers a comprehensive update to the field of WM and SLA. The first section outlines the main WM models and tests used in European and North American L2 research and proposes methodological recommendations. The second and third sections summarize research examining WM ef…
Game on
Effective language processing relies on pattern detection. Spanish monolinguals predict verb tense through stress-suffix associations: a stressed first syllable signals present tense, while an unstressed first syllable signals past tense. Low-proficiency second language (L2) Spanish learners struggle to detect these associations, and we investigated whether they benefit from game-based training. We examined the effects of four variables on their …
Unraveling the Complexities of Second Language Lexical Stress Processing
We investigated the role of cue weighting, second language (L2) proficiency, and L2 daily exposure in L2 learning of suprasegmentals different from the first language (L1), using eye-tracking. Spanish monolinguals, English-Spanish learners, and Mandarin-Spanish learners saw a paroxytone and an oxytone verb (e.g., FIRma-firMÓ "s/he signs-signed"), listened to a sentence containing one of the verbs, and chose the one that they heard. The three lang…
Interpreting experience and working memory effects on L1 and L2 morphological prediction
The human brain tries to process information as efficiently as possible through mechanisms like prediction. Native speakers predict linguistic information extensively, but L2 learners show variability. Interpreters use prediction while working and research shows that interpreting experience mediates L2 prediction. However, it is unclear whether advantages related to interpreting are due to higher working memory (WM) capacity, a typical characteri…
Subject-Verb Number Agreement in Bilingual Processing
Children acquire language more easily than adults, though it is controversial whether this faculty declines as a result of a critical period or something else. To address this question, we investigate the role of age of acquisition and proficiency on morphosyntactic processing in adult monolinguals and bilinguals. Spanish monolinguals and intermediate and advanced early and late bilinguals of Spanish read sentences with adjacent subject-verb numb…
Processing DOM in relative clauses
Early heritage bilinguals have been repeatedly found to differ from late bilinguals and from monolinguals (e.g., Montrul, 2008 , 2011 ). In the realm of Spanish Differential Object Marking (DOM), both early heritage bilinguals ( Montrul et al., 2015 ) and late bilinguals (e.g., Bowles & Montrul, 2008 ; Guijarro-Fuentes, 2012 ) exhibit difficulties. DOM in a complex structure such as relative clauses (RCs) provides an ideal setting to differentiat…
Longitudinal effects of working memory on L2 grammar and reading abilities
Adults demonstrate difficulty and pronounced variability when developing second language (L2) grammatical knowledge and reading skills. We examine explanations in terms of individual differences in working memory (WM). Despite numerous studies, the association between WM and adult second language (L2) acquisition remains unclear, and longitudinal studies are scarce and contradictory. This study investigates whether WM affects L2 grammar and readi…
Transfer and proficiency effects in L2 processing of subject anaphora
Processing of gender and number agreement in late Spanish bilinguals
Drawing from Sagarra & Herschensohn (2010, 2011), we evaluate current approaches to grammatical representation and processing of L2 gender and number agreement in Spanish determiner phrases (DPs), some advocating incomplete acquisition and computation of L2 grammatical features and others claiming native-like representation and computation of new grammatical values. Testing Spanish monolinguals, beginning and intermediate L2 learners, we evaluate…
Working Memory in Second Language Acquisition
Working memory (WM) is the temporary storage and processing of incoming information needed to execute complex cognitive actions (Baddeley, 2007), such as processing a foreign language (L2).
Eyetracking Methodology
During the past decade, the use of behavioral (e.g. picture/word naming, self-paced reading, eyetracking) and electrophysiological (e.g. event-related potentials) quantitative experimental techniques historically associated with psychology has flourished in linguistics. These techniques are shaping linguistic theories in new ways and it is important to understand how they can contribute to our field. This article focuses on the use of eyetracking…
Proficiency and Animacy Effects on L2 Gender Agreement Processes During Comprehension
This study examines whether adult second language (L2) learners of an ungendered first language (L1) are sensitive to gender congruency (grammatical feature absent in the L1) and noun animacy (semantic feature present in the L1) when processing L2 gender concord and whether L2 proficiency level determines such sensitivity. To address these questions, 63 Spanish monolinguals and 69 beginning and 64 intermediate Anglophone late learners of L2 Spani…
Learned Attention Effects in L2 Temporal Reference
This article relates adults' difficulty acquiring foreign languages to the associative learning phenomena of cue salience, cue complexity, and the blocking of later experienced cues by earlier learned ones. It examines short- and long-term learned attention effects in adult acquisition of lexical (adverbs) and morphological cues (verbal inflections) for temporal reference in Latin (1 hr of controlled laboratory learning) and Spanish (three to eig…
The role of proficiency and working memory in gender and number agreement processing in L1 and L2 Spanish
The effect of exposure on syntactic parsing in Spanish–English bilinguals
An eye tracking experiment examined how exposure to a second language (L2) influences sentence parsing in the first language. Forty-four monolingual Spanish speakers, 24 proficient Spanish–English bilinguals with limited immersion experience in the L2 environment and 20 proficient Spanish–English bilinguals with extensive L2 immersion experience read temporarily ambiguous constructions. The ambiguity concerned whether a relative clause (RC) that …
The role of proficiency and working memory in gender and number agreement processing in L1 and L2 Spanish
Transfer and proficiency effects in L2 processing of subject anaphora
Proficiency and Animacy Effects on L2 Gender Agreement Processes During Comprehension
This study examines whether adult second language (L2) learners of an ungendered first language (L1) are sensitive to gender congruency (grammatical feature absent in the L1) and noun animacy (semantic feature present in the L1) when processing L2 gender concord and whether L2 proficiency level determines such sensitivity. To address these questions, 63 Spanish monolinguals and 69 beginning and 64 intermediate Anglophone late learners of L2 Spani…
Longitudinal effects of working memory on L2 grammar and reading abilities
Adults demonstrate difficulty and pronounced variability when developing second language (L2) grammatical knowledge and reading skills. We examine explanations in terms of individual differences in working memory (WM). Despite numerous studies, the association between WM and adult second language (L2) acquisition remains unclear, and longitudinal studies are scarce and contradictory. This study investigates whether WM affects L2 grammar and readi…
Learned Attention Effects in L2 Temporal Reference
This article relates adults' difficulty acquiring foreign languages to the associative learning phenomena of cue salience, cue complexity, and the blocking of later experienced cues by earlier learned ones. It examines short- and long-term learned attention effects in adult acquisition of lexical (adverbs) and morphological cues (verbal inflections) for temporal reference in Latin (1 hr of controlled laboratory learning) and Spanish (three to eig…
Game on
Effective language processing relies on pattern detection. Spanish monolinguals predict verb tense through stress-suffix associations: a stressed first syllable signals present tense, while an unstressed first syllable signals past tense. Low-proficiency second language (L2) Spanish learners struggle to detect these associations, and we investigated whether they benefit from game-based training. We examined the effects of four variables on their …
Unraveling the Complexities of Second Language Lexical Stress Processing
We investigated the role of cue weighting, second language (L2) proficiency, and L2 daily exposure in L2 learning of suprasegmentals different from the first language (L1), using eye-tracking. Spanish monolinguals, English-Spanish learners, and Mandarin-Spanish learners saw a paroxytone and an oxytone verb (e.g., FIRma-firMÓ "s/he signs-signed"), listened to a sentence containing one of the verbs, and chose the one that they heard. The three lang…
Subject-Verb Number Agreement in Bilingual Processing
Children acquire language more easily than adults, though it is controversial whether this faculty declines as a result of a critical period or something else. To address this question, we investigate the role of age of acquisition and proficiency on morphosyntactic processing in adult monolinguals and bilinguals. Spanish monolinguals and intermediate and advanced early and late bilinguals of Spanish read sentences with adjacent subject-verb numb…
The effect of exposure on syntactic parsing in Spanish–English bilinguals
An eye tracking experiment examined how exposure to a second language (L2) influences sentence parsing in the first language. Forty-four monolingual Spanish speakers, 24 proficient Spanish–English bilinguals with limited immersion experience in the L2 environment and 20 proficient Spanish–English bilinguals with extensive L2 immersion experience read temporarily ambiguous constructions. The ambiguity concerned whether a relative clause (RC) that …
Learned Attention Effects in L2 Temporal Reference
This article relates adults' difficulty acquiring foreign languages to the associative learning phenomena of cue salience, cue complexity, and the blocking of later experienced cues by earlier learned ones. It examines short- and long-term learned attention effects in adult acquisition of lexical (adverbs) and morphological cues (verbal inflections) for temporal reference in Latin (1 hr of controlled laboratory learning) and Spanish (three to eig…
The role of proficiency and working memory in gender and number agreement processing in L1 and L2 Spanish
Eyetracking Methodology
During the past decade, the use of behavioral (e.g. picture/word naming, self-paced reading, eyetracking) and electrophysiological (e.g. event-related potentials) quantitative experimental techniques historically associated with psychology has flourished in linguistics. These techniques are shaping linguistic theories in new ways and it is important to understand how they can contribute to our field. This article focuses on the use of eyetracking…
Proficiency and Animacy Effects on L2 Gender Agreement Processes During Comprehension
This study examines whether adult second language (L2) learners of an ungendered first language (L1) are sensitive to gender congruency (grammatical feature absent in the L1) and noun animacy (semantic feature present in the L1) when processing L2 gender concord and whether L2 proficiency level determines such sensitivity. To address these questions, 63 Spanish monolinguals and 69 beginning and 64 intermediate Anglophone late learners of L2 Spani…
Working Memory in Second Language Acquisition
Working memory (WM) is the temporary storage and processing of incoming information needed to execute complex cognitive actions (Baddeley, 2007), such as processing a foreign language (L2).
Processing of gender and number agreement in late Spanish bilinguals
Drawing from Sagarra & Herschensohn (2010, 2011), we evaluate current approaches to grammatical representation and processing of L2 gender and number agreement in Spanish determiner phrases (DPs), some advocating incomplete acquisition and computation of L2 grammatical features and others claiming native-like representation and computation of new grammatical values. Testing Spanish monolinguals, beginning and intermediate L2 learners, we evaluate…
Transfer and proficiency effects in L2 processing of subject anaphora
Longitudinal effects of working memory on L2 grammar and reading abilities
Adults demonstrate difficulty and pronounced variability when developing second language (L2) grammatical knowledge and reading skills. We examine explanations in terms of individual differences in working memory (WM). Despite numerous studies, the association between WM and adult second language (L2) acquisition remains unclear, and longitudinal studies are scarce and contradictory. This study investigates whether WM affects L2 grammar and readi…
Processing DOM in relative clauses
Early heritage bilinguals have been repeatedly found to differ from late bilinguals and from monolinguals (e.g., Montrul, 2008 , 2011 ). In the realm of Spanish Differential Object Marking (DOM), both early heritage bilinguals ( Montrul et al., 2015 ) and late bilinguals (e.g., Bowles & Montrul, 2008 ; Guijarro-Fuentes, 2012 ) exhibit difficulties. DOM in a complex structure such as relative clauses (RCs) provides an ideal setting to differentiat…
Subject-Verb Number Agreement in Bilingual Processing
Children acquire language more easily than adults, though it is controversial whether this faculty declines as a result of a critical period or something else. To address this question, we investigate the role of age of acquisition and proficiency on morphosyntactic processing in adult monolinguals and bilinguals. Spanish monolinguals and intermediate and advanced early and late bilinguals of Spanish read sentences with adjacent subject-verb numb…
Interpreting experience and working memory effects on L1 and L2 morphological prediction
The human brain tries to process information as efficiently as possible through mechanisms like prediction. Native speakers predict linguistic information extensively, but L2 learners show variability. Interpreters use prediction while working and research shows that interpreting experience mediates L2 prediction. However, it is unclear whether advantages related to interpreting are due to higher working memory (WM) capacity, a typical characteri…
Unraveling the Complexities of Second Language Lexical Stress Processing
We investigated the role of cue weighting, second language (L2) proficiency, and L2 daily exposure in L2 learning of suprasegmentals different from the first language (L1), using eye-tracking. Spanish monolinguals, English-Spanish learners, and Mandarin-Spanish learners saw a paroxytone and an oxytone verb (e.g., FIRma-firMÓ "s/he signs-signed"), listened to a sentence containing one of the verbs, and chose the one that they heard. The three lang…
Game on
Effective language processing relies on pattern detection. Spanish monolinguals predict verb tense through stress-suffix associations: a stressed first syllable signals present tense, while an unstressed first syllable signals past tense. Low-proficiency second language (L2) Spanish learners struggle to detect these associations, and we investigated whether they benefit from game-based training. We examined the effects of four variables on their …
Working Memory in Second Language Research
Working memory (WM) plays a prominent role in SLA because adult SLA requires additional computation and activation, which in turn imposes extra load on WM resources. This article offers a comprehensive update to the field of WM and SLA. The first section outlines the main WM models and tests used in European and North American L2 research and proposes methodological recommendations. The second and third sections summarize research examining WM ef…
Psychology (14 obras) · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (13 obras) · Linguistics (12 obras) · Cognitive psychology (11 obras) · Computer Science (10 obras) · Second Language Acquisition and Learning (9 obras) · Cognition (8 obras) · Reading and Literacy Development (7 obras) · Grammar (5 obras) · Second-language acquisition (5 obras)