• The Bottleneck Hypothesis in L2 acquisition: L1 Norwegian learners’ knowledge of syntax and morphology in L2 English 

      Jensen, Isabel Nadine; Slabakova, Roumyana; Westergaard, Marit; Lundquist, Bjørn (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      The Bottleneck Hypothesis (Slabakova, 2008, 2013) proposes that acquiring properties of the functional morphology is the most challenging part of learning a second language. In the experiment presented here, the predictions ...
    • Crosslinguistic influence in L3 acquisition across linguistic modules 

      Jensen, Isabel Nadine; Mitrofanova, Natalia; Anderssen, Merete; Rodina, Yulia; Slabakova, Roumyana; Westergaard, Marit (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      In this study, we investigated crosslinguistic influence (CLI) at developmental stages of third language (L3) acquisition of English by Russian–Norwegian children (N = 31). We tested seven linguistic properties within three ...
    • L2 Knowledge of the Obligatory French Subjunctive: Offline Measures and Eye Tracking Compared 

      Dudley, Amber; Slabakova, Roumyana (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Extensive research has shown that second language (L2) learners find it difficult to apply grammatical knowledge during real-time processing, especially when differences exist between the first (L1) and L2. The current ...
    • The Bottleneck Hypothesis Updated 

      Slabakova, Roumyana (Chapter, 2019)
      The Bottleneck Hypothesis identifies parts of the grammar that are easier or more difficult to acquire in a second language. It argues that the functional morphology is the bottleneck in L2 acquisition because it bundles ...