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Darcy Sperlich

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Open access Sep 2026

Differential adaptation of bilingual language control to cognitive load: Evidence from cued and voluntary switching.

Bilingual speakers must regulate cross-language competition to communicate effectively, yet this regulation typically unfolds under concurrent cognitive demands. To characterise how cognitive load shapes bilingual control, we used a dual-task picture-naming paradigm in which 78 proficient Chinese-English bilinguals per...

Hong Liu, Adel Chaouch-Orozco, Darcy Sperlich · 0 citations
Aug 2026

The second language acquisition of reflexives in Japanese by Chinese and Korean learners

This study investigates the second language processing and interpretation of the Japanese reflexive zibun ‘self’ by Chinese and Korean learners of Japanese. This is motivated by the pragmatic influence on anaphoric resolution in these three languages, allowing insight into positive pragmatic transfer regarding b...

Darcy Sperlich · 0 citations
Review Sep 2026

The pragmatics of the Chinese marked zero anaphor

This article discusses emergent empirical data about the Mandarin Chinese collective suffix ‑men, in that it is able to mark a zero anaphor. This is a marked zero pronoun, a covert element (a zero anaphor) marked by an overt element (‑men). The licensing of this anaphoric element has yet to be captured, which is appr...

Darcy Sperlich · 0 citations

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