Cross-linguistic transfer in deverbal compounds of preschool bilingual children  

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Nicoladis, Elena

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Bilingualism: Language and Cognition (sebagian Full Text & ada di PROQUEST th. 2001 - ) vol. 6 no. 1 (Apr. 2003), page 17-31.
Fulltext: 6.1,17-31.pdf (216.79KB)

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Cross-linguistic transfer can be explained by structural ambiguity in a bilingual child’s two languages (D¨opke, 1998; Hulk and M¨uller, 2000). This study examined the effect of morphological ambiguity in transfer of deverbal compounds in English and French. English-speaking children go through a stage of producing ungrammatical verb-object compounds in their acquisition of object-verb-er compounds. In French, verb-object compounds are productive. If structural ambiguity predicts when transfer occurs, French-English bilingual children should use more ungrammatical verb-object compounds than English-speaking children and more grammatical verb-object compounds than French-speaking children. This study focused on 36 French-English bilingual children’s production and comprehension of novel deverbal compounds in both languages. The results supported these predictions for production but not for comprehension. It is concluded that cross-linguistic transfer is a language production phenomenon and that structural ambiguity can predict when morphological transfer can occur.

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