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Overview

Jason Rothman is affiliated with the University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway. Their research primarily spans the fields of Psychology and Neuroscience, with a focus on developmental and educational psychology as well as cognitive neuroscience. They have contributed extensively to the investigation of language-related neurobiology and bilingualism, alongside topics such as language development, disorders, and literacy development.

Key areas of their work include:

  • Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
  • Language Development and Disorders
  • Reading and Literacy Development
  • Second Language Acquisition and Learning
  • Multilingual Education and Policy
  • Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
  • Linguistic Variation and Morphology

Rothman's publications appear frequently in several academic journals. Their most frequent publication venues are:

  • Bilingualism Language and Cognition
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Applied Psycholinguistics
  • Second Language Research
  • Studies in Second Language Acquisition

Among their recent notable papers are:

  • "Monolingual comparative normativity in bilingualism research is out of "control": Arguments and alternatives" (2022, Applied Psycholinguistics)
  • "On the phantom-like appearance of bilingualism effects on neurocognition: (How) should we proceed?" (2020, Bilingualism Language and Cognition)
  • "Individual differences in bilingual word recognition: The role of experiential factors and word frequency in cross-language lexical priming" (2020, Applied Psycholinguistics)
  • "Beyond Alzheimer's disease: Can bilingualism be a more generalized protective factor in neurodegeneration?" (2020, Neuropsychologia)
  • "Bilingualism and Aging: Implications for (Delaying) Neurocognitive Decline" (2022, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience)

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

  • Maki Kubota
  • Jorge González Alonso
  • Toms Voits
  • Sergio Miguel Pereira Soares
  • Fatih Bayram

Best Publications

  • Understanding the nature and outcomes of early bilingualism: Romance languages as heritage languages

    Jason Rothman

  • L3 syntactic transfer selectivity and typological determinacy: The typological primacy model

    Jason Rothman

  • Linguistic and cognitive motivations for the Typological Primacy Model (TPM) of third language (L3) transfer: Timing of acquisition and proficiency considered

    Jason Rothman

  • Redefining bilingualism as a spectrum of experiences that differentially affects brain structure and function

    Vincent DeLuca;Vincent DeLuca;Jason Rothman;Ellen Bialystok;Christos Pliatsikas

  • Terminology matters! : Why difference is not incompleteness and how early child bilinguals are heritage speakers

    Tanja Kupisch;Jason Rothman

  • Heritage speaker competence differences, language change, and input type: Inflected infinitives in Heritage Brazilian Portuguese

    Jason Rothman

  • What variables condition syntactic transfer? A look at the L3 initial state

    Jason Rothman;Jennifer Cabrelli Amaro

  • Pragmatic deficits with syntactic consequences?: L2 pronominal subjects and the syntax–pragmatics interface

    Jason Rothman

  • The (Il)Logical Problem of Heritage Speaker Bilingualism and Incomplete Acquisition

    Diego Pascual Y. Cabo;Jason Rothman

  • On the typological economy of syntactic transfer: Word order and relative clause high/low attachment preference in L3 Brazilian Portuguese

    Jason Rothman

  • A Prolegomenon to the Construct of the Native Speaker: Heritage Speaker Bilinguals are Natives Too!

    Jason Rothman;Jeanine Treffers-Daller

  • Formal linguistics approaches to adult second language acquisition and processing

    Jason Rothman;Fatih Bayram;Ian Cunnings;Jorge Gonzalez Alonso

  • Disentangling sources of incomplete acquisition: An explanation for competence divergence across heritage grammars

    Acrisio Pires;Jason Rothman

  • Monolingual comparative normativity in bilingualism research is out of “control”: Arguments and alternatives

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  • What does current generative theory have to say about the explicit-implicit debate?

    Bill VanPatten;Jason Rothman

  • Interface vulnerability and knowledge of the subjunctive/indicative distinction with negated epistemic predicates in L2 Spanish

    Michael Iverson;Paula Kempchinsky;Jason Rothman

  • Clitic-doubled left dislocation and focus fronting in L2 Spanish: A case of successful acquisition at the syntax–discourse interface:

    Roumyana Slabakova;Paula Kempchinsky;Jason Rothman

  • Third language acquisition in adulthood

    Jennifer Cabrelli Amaro;Suzanne Flynn;Jason Rothman

  • On the phantom-like appearance of bilingualism effects on neurocognition: (How) should we proceed?

    Evelina Leivada;Jon Andoni Dunabeitia;Marit Westergaard;Jason Rothman

  • A systematic review of transfer studies in third language acquisition

    Eloi Puig-Mayenco;Jorge González Alonso;Jason Rothman

  • A Linguistic Analysis of Spanglish: Relating Language to Identity.

    Jason Rothman;Amy Beth Rell

  • Brain adaptations and neurological indices of processing in adult Second Language Acquisition: challenges for the Critical Period Hypothesis

    Vince DeLuca;David Miller;Christos Pliatsikas;Jason Rothman

  • Third Language Acquisition and Linguistic Transfer

    Jason Rothman;Jorge González Alonso;Eloi Puig-Mayenco

Frequent Co-Authors

Roumyana Slabakova
Roumyana Slabakova University of Southampton
Bill VanPatten
Bill VanPatten Michigan State University
Ellen Bialystok
Ellen Bialystok York University
Jon Andoni Duñabeitia
Jon Andoni Duñabeitia Nebrija University
Antonella Sorace
Antonella Sorace University of Edinburgh

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