Crosslinguistic influence and language dominance in older bilingual children
Crosslinguistic influence and language dominance in older bilingual children
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DOI：
10.1017/s1366728906002835
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发表时间：
2007-03-01
影响因子：
3.6
通讯作者：
Sorace, Antonella
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作者：
Argyri, Efrosyni;Sorace, Antonella
本研究的出发点是众所周知的假设，根据该假设，涉及句法-语用界面并实例化两种语言之间的表面重叠的结构比纯粹的句法域更容易受到跨语言影响（例如，Muller和Hulk，2001）。在探索这一假设的有效性，为双语习得的后期阶段，本研究的目的是建立是否跨语言的影响occu只在一个方向，即从英语到希腊语的结构因素可以解释的方向性的跨语言的影响，以及是否语言优势发挥作用，在确定这些影响的发生和强度在较大的双语儿童。实验数据来自32名英语-希腊语8岁的双语者- 16名希腊语为主的生活在希腊和16名英语为主的生活在英国-和单语对照组。研究结果表明，这两种结构在预测的方向上都有选择性地受到跨语言影响，但仅限于英语占主导地位的双语者的语法。
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 occu 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 of 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.