Crosslinguistic Influence and Language Dominance in Older Bilingual Children

Autor/inn/en	Argyri, Efrosyni; Sorace, Antonella
Titel	Crosslinguistic Influence and Language Dominance in Older Bilingual Children
Quelle	In: Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 10 (2007) 1, S.79-99 (21 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1366-7289
DOI	10.1017/S1366728906002835
Schlagwörter	Control Groups; Language Dominance; Syntax; Monolingualism; Foreign Countries; Pragmatics; Bilingualism; Hypothesis Testing; Children; Second Language Learning; Second Languages; Language Research; Structural Analysis (Linguistics); Linguistic Borrowing; Greek; English (Second Language); Elementary Education; Greece; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sprachliche Dominanz; Ausland; Pragmalinguistik; Bilingualismus; Hypothesenprüfung; Hypothesentest; Child; Kind; Kinder; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Second language; Zweitsprache; Sprachforschung; Structural analysis; Strukturanalyse; Lehnwort; Grieche; Griechisch; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Elementarunterricht; Griechenland; Großbritannien
Abstract	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 crosslinguistic 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 crosslinguistic influence occur only in one direction, i.e. from English to Greek, which structural factors can account for the directionality of crosslinguistic 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 interface and narrow syntax structures were investigated and the results showed that both types of structures were found to be selectively vulnerable to crosslinguistic influence in the predicted direction, but only in the grammar of the English-dominant bilinguals. (Author).
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