Effects of language dominance and time of formal exposure to the language on the production of clitic pronouns by Portuguese/French bilingual children

• Autor(es): Tomaz, Margarida ; Lobo, Maria ; Madeira, Ana ; Soares-Jesel, Carla ; Vaz, Stéphanie
• Data: 2020
• Origem: Revista da Associação Portuguesa de Linguística
• Assunto(s): dominância linguística; exposição formal; crianças bilingues; português; francês; language dominance; formal exposure; bilingual children; clitics; Portuguese; French
• Tipo de Documento: Artigo científico
• Idioma: Português

Descrição

This study investigates the effects of two external linguistic variables – language dominance and time of formal exposure – on the production and placement of clitic pronouns of Portuguese-French bilingual children. Using two elicited production tasks and a parental sociolinguistic questionnaire, we show that language dominance plays a role in rates of omission and rates of clitic production. On the other hand, a higher time of formal exposure to Portuguese does not determine better performance neither in what concerns clitic omission nor clitic placement in Portuguese-French bilingual children.