Bill VanPatten

List of John Benjamins publications in which Bill VanPatten is involved.

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Research in Second Language Processing and Parsing

Edited by Bill VanPatten and Jill Jegerski

This volume is the first dedicated to the growing field of theory and research on second language processing and parsing. The fourteen papers in this volume offer cutting-edge research using a number of different languages (e.g., Arabic, Spanish, Japanese, French, German, English) and structures (e. read more

[Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 53] 2010. vii, 351 pp.

Jegerski, Jill, Bill VanPatten and Gregory D. Keating 2016 Relative clause attachment preferences in early and late Spanish-English bilinguals Advances in Spanish as a Heritage Language, Pascual y Cabo, Diego (ed.), pp. 81–98 | Article

Previous research on the interpretation of ambiguous relative clauses among bilinguals has suggested that a single attachment strategy is employed with both languages and that this preference is determined by language exposure (Dussias & Sagarra, 2007). However, most prior studies had targeted late… read more

VanPatten, Bill and Jason Rothman 2015 What does current generative theory have to say about the explicit-implicit debate? Implicit and Explicit Learning of Languages, Rebuschat, Patrick (ed.), pp. 91–116 | Article

Taking a generative perspective, we divide aspects of language into three broad categories: those that cannot be learned (are inherent in Universal Grammar), those that are derived from Universal Grammar, and those that must be learned from the input. Using this framework of language to clarify the… read more

VanPatten, Bill 2014 Chapter 5. The limits of instruction: 40 years after “Interlanguage” Interlanguage: Forty years later, Han, ZhaoHong and Elaine Tarone (eds.), pp. 105–126 | Chapter

This chapter argues that Selinker’s (1972) claim that instruction does not significantly affect interlanguage development is essentially correct. Reviewing general research on instructed second language acquisition as well as some recent research of my own, I argue that instructed SLA to date has… read more

Rothman, Jason and Bill VanPatten 2013 Afterword. On multiplicity and mutual exclusivity: The case for different SLA theories Contemporary Approaches to Second Language Acquisition, García Mayo, María del Pilar, María Juncal Gutiérrez Mangado and María Martínez-Adrián (eds.), pp. 243–256 | Article

VanPatten, Bill 2013 Chapter 1. Mental representation and skill in instructed SLA Innovative Research and Practices in Second Language Acquisition and Bilingualism, Schwieter, John W. (ed.), pp. 3–22 | Article

In this chapter, I argue something that ought to be self-evident but is often overlooked in instructed SLA research: language is multifaceted and not reducible to a single concept. In simplest terms, this means that language consists of two broad domains: (1) mental representation, and (2) skill… read more

VanPatten, Bill, Gregory D. Keating and Michael J. Leeser 2012  Missing verbal inflections as a representational problem: Evidence from self-paced reading Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism 2:2, pp. 109–140 | Editorial

A continuing concern in second language acquisition (SLA) research is whether problems with inflectional morphology are representational or related somehow to performance. In this study, we examine 25 non-advanced learners of L2 Spanish and compare them with 18 native Spanish speakers on three… read more

VanPatten, Bill and Jill Jegerski 2010 Second language processing and parsing: The issues Research in Second Language Processing and Parsing, VanPatten, Bill and Jill Jegerski (eds.), pp. 3–24 | Article

VanPatten, Bill 2002 Communicative classrooms, processing instruction, and pedagogical norms Pedagogical Norms for Second and Foreign Language Learning and Teaching: Studies in honour of Albert Valdman, Gass, Susan M., Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig, Sally Magnan Pierce and Joel Walz (eds.), pp. 105–118 | Article

VanPatten, Bill 1987 Review of Hyltenstam & Pienemann (1985): Modelling and Assessing Second Language Acquisition Language Problems and Language Planning 11:2, pp. 231–232 | Review