Testing Hulk & M¨ uller (2000) on crosslinguistic influence:Root Infinitives in a bilingual German/English child  

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Unsworth, Sharon

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Bilingualism: Language and Cognition (sebagian Full Text & ada di PROQUEST th. 2001 - ) vol. 6 no. 2 (Aug. 2003), page 143-158.
Fulltext: 6.2;143-158.pdf (156.45KB)

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This paper considers whether the findings on the referential properties of Root Infinitives in monolingual children (Wijnen, 1997; Hoekstra and Hyams, 1998) are replicated in a bilingual situation. Testing a proposal put forward by Hulk and M¨uller (2000), the present study investigates whether and how crosslinguistic influence manifests itself, using original longitudinal data from a bilingual German/English child. The bilingual results are found to be broadly consistent with the monolingual data: there is no indication of either quantitative or qualitative crosslinguistic influence. Consequently, it is argued that these data show that Hulk and M¨uller’s proposal needs refining. Suggestions are made as to how this could be achieved.

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