"Elective affinities": Language contact in the abstract lexicon and its structural consequences: `Affinities really become interesting only when they bring about separations' (Goethe: Elective Affinities).  

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Bolonyai, Agnes

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: International Journal of Bilingualism (Full Text) vol. 4 no. 1 (Mar. 2000), page 81-106.
Topik: abstract lexical structure; child bilingualism; codeswitching; Hungarian; language attrition and shift; morpheme classification;
Fulltext: International Journal of Bilingualism 2000 4.1 81-106.pdf (318.36KB)

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This paper investigates how and what properties of abstract lexical entries in the mental lexicon interact with the distribution of surface morphemes in language contact and / or L1 attrition. Data from Hungarian /English bilingual children provide evidence that asymmetries in the production of Hungarian preverbs and case suffixes may be explained by considering how these morphemes are elected in language production. Effects of differential election and status of “early” versus “late” system morphemes interact with effects of cross-linguistic incongruence and result in different patterns of error types in the use of preverbs and case suffixes. The results of the study support the predictions of the 4-M model and the Abstract Level model (Myers-Scotton & Jake, 2000). Working within the framework of the 4-M model and the Abstract Level model provides a principled explanation for interrelations between language production and the morphemic organization of the bilingual mental lexicon.

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