The Scope of Bilingual Sentence Planning in L1 and L2 : Effects of Complexity and Bilingual Profile

Master´s thesis in English (EN501) Investigating the scope of bilingual sentence planning, this two-component study compared first and second language sentence production at different complexity level sin relation to aspects of bilingual profile. Norwegian-English bilinguals filled out a questionnaire detailing their language background and proficiency in both languages, after which they performed a sentence production task in each language, producing prepositional-structure and coordinate-structure sentences at varying levels of complexity. The results of the study revealed that first and second language planning operates with different planning scopes. Prior to speech onset, the scope of …