This article is a study that presents its participants, method, stimuli and apparatus, procedure and results based on English monolinguals and early, balanced Spanish-English bilinguals. This study investigates language-processing differences between early, balanced, adult bilinguals and monolinguals. It analyzes the learning-processing according with speed and accuracy. Bilinguals and monolinguals are studied through phonological, lexical, and syntactic levels. This research provides valuable information about the differences between bilinguals and monolinguals in syntactic processing. It states that cross-linguistic influence may affect these groups differently. Bilinguals tend to communicate in one language at a time; when they do code switch, it does not typically take the form of alternating between languages on every sentence. This study also investigates a variety of language structures to determine the areas of the syntax that are susceptible to interference.
Source: Cassandra D. Foursha, Jennifer B. Austin, & Gretchen A. Van de Walle from Rutgers University
