French- Dutch bilinguals do not maintain obligatory semantic distinctions: Evidence from placement verbs*
French- Dutch bilinguals do not maintain obligatory semantic distinctions: Evidence from placement verbs*
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DOI：
10.1017/s136672891300028x
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发表时间：
2014-01-01
影响因子：
3.6
通讯作者：
Gullberg, Marianne
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作者：
Alferink, Inge;Gullberg, Marianne
人们经常说，双语者不是两个单语者的总和，而是双语系统代表了第三种模式。这项研究探索了这种模式的确切性质。我们问，当一种语言做出强制性区分而另一种语言没有这种区分时，是否有证据表明存在合并系统，即法语和荷兰语中的位置动词，以及这种合并系统是作为更一般的系统实现的，还是作为更具体的系统实现的。结果表明，在引出的描述中，比利时法荷双语者在其中一种语言中并没有保持两个不同的类别，从而形成了一个比非接触性变体更一般的语义系统。它们不支持在动词或其他地方的强制性区分，尽管它与交际相关。这就提出了一些重要的问题，即这些差异有多普遍，以及是什么驱动了这些模式。
It is often said that bilinguals are not the sum of two monolinguals but that bilingual systems represent a third pattern. This study explores the exact nature of this pattern. We ask whether there is evidence of a merged system when one language makes an obligatory distinction that the other one does not, namely in the case of placement verbs in French and Dutch, and whether such a merged system is realised as a more general or a more specific system. The results show that in elicited descriptions Belgian French-Dutch bilinguals do not maintain two distinct categories in one of the languages, resulting in a more general semantic system in comparison with the non-contact variety. They do not uphold the obligatory distinction in the verb nor elsewhere despite its communicative relevance. This raises important questions regarding how widespread these differences are and what drives these patterns.