Helen Engemann
List of John Benjamins publications in which Helen Engemann is involved.
Journal
ISSN 1879-7865 | E‑ISSN 1879‑7873
2025 Priming motion events in Italian heritage language speakers: Agents and mechanisms of language change Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism: Online-First Articles | Article
Language contact can lead to short-term effects like cross-linguistic influence but might also contribute to long-term processes such as contact-induced language change. Recent studies suggest that structural priming may serve as a cognitive mechanism linking synchronic and diachronic outcomes… read more
2025 The role of cross-linguistic structural priming in contact-induced language change: Ungrammatical comparative priming in Turkish–German bilinguals Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism: Online-First Articles | Article
Research investigating the psycholinguistic foundations of contact-induced grammatical language change suggests that new structures may enter a language through cross-linguistic priming in bilinguals. However, this assumes that priming effects can emerge even for structures which are… read more
2017 Chapter 2. Expressing and categorizing motion in French and English: Verbal and non-verbal cognition across languages Motion and Space across Languages: Theory and applications, Ibarretxe-Antuñano, Iraide (ed.), pp. 61–94 | Chapter
Language-specific properties influence motion expression (Slobin 2004; Talmy 2000), but it is still debated whether they also influence non-verbal spatial cognition. We compare how English and French speakers perform three tasks involving motion events: non-verbal categorization based on cartoons… read more
2013 The impact of typological factors in monolingual and bilingual first language acquisition: Caused motion expressions in English and French Grammaticalization and First Language Acquisition: Crosslinguistic perspectives, Bassano-Bonhommo, Dominique and Maya Hickmann † (eds.), pp. 101–127 | Article
The present study compares (1) monolingual English vs. French adults and children and (2) simultaneous French-English bilingual children who describe caused motion events. The results concerning L1 speakers showed developmental progressions in both languages, e.g. utterance complexity increases… read more
2012 12. Caused motion events across languages and learner types: A comparison of bilingual first and adult second language acquisition Space and Time in Languages and Cultures: Linguistic diversity, Filipović, Luna and Katarzyna M. Jaszczolt (eds.), pp. 263–288 | Article
The present chapter shares the interest of preceding contributions in the consequences of cross-linguistic diversity for language acquisition. We explore the implications of Talmy’s motion event typology (see also Luk and Vidaković, this volume) for bilingual first and adult second language… read more
2011 The impact of typological factors in monolingual and bilingual first language acquisition: Caused motion expressions in English and French Grammaticalization and first language acquisition – Crosslinguistic perspectives/Grammaticalisation et acquisition des langues premières - Perspectives interlangues, Bassano-Bonhommo, Dominique and Maya Hickmann † (eds.), pp. 101–128 | Article
The present study compares (1) monolingual English vs. French adults and children and (2) simultaneous French-English bilingual children who describe caused motion events. The results concerning L1 speakers showed developmental progressions in both languages, e.g., utterance complexity increases… read more