Crosslinguistic influence and language dominance in older bilingual children  

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Argyri, Efrosyni ; Sorace, Antonella

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Bilingualism: Language and Cognition (sebagian Full Text & ada di PROQUEST th. 2001 - ) vol. 10 no. 1 (Mar. 2007), page 79-99.
Fulltext: 10.1;79-99.pdf (294.33KB)

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The point of departure of this study is the well-known hypothesis according to which structures that involve the syntax-pragmatics interface and instantiate a surface overlap between two languages are more vulnerable to cross linguistic influence than purely syntactic domains (e.g. Muller and Hulk, 2001). In exploring the validity of this hypothesis for later stages of bilingual acquisition, the study aims to establish whether cross linguistic influence occu only in one direction, i.e. from English to Greek, which structural factors can account for the directionality of cross linguistic effects, and whether language dominance plays a role in determining the occurrence and the strength of these effects in older bilingual children. Experimental data are presented from 32 English-Greek eight-year-old simultaneous bilinguals - 16 Greek-dominant living in Greece and 16 English-dominant living in the UK - and monolingual control groups. A number of syntax-pragmatics inte1ace and narrow syntax structures were investigated and the results showed that both types of structures were found to be selectively vulnerable to cross linguistic influence in the predicted direction, but only in the grammar of the English-dominant bilinguals.

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