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Language separation and stable syntactic knowledge: verbs and verb phrases in bilingual children’s narratives
| Resumo: | The present study analyses written narratives of 60 Portuguese-German bilingual children between 8 and 15 years living in Switzerland, in both their languages. Portuguese is the children’s heritage language (HL) and German the environmental language. The analysis focusses on the children’s lexical, morphological and structural knowledge in the verb domain (verb types, agreement morphology, verbal tense, word order within the VP, orthography) and aims to determine the role of language dominance, general proficiency, current age and age of onset of bilingualism (AoO) in bilingual language acquisition at later stages of development (i.e., at school-age). The results show that the bilingual children display stable syntactic and morphological knowledge in both their languages. Lexical knowledge is positively correlated with age and proficiency. Morphological and syntactic deviations are residual in both languages and not correlated with AoO. No effects of cross-linguistic influence are observed. We only find performance differences between the Portuguese and the German corpus at the level of orthography. We conclude that in the analysed age span children have received enough exposure to both languages to develop stable morphological and syntactic knowledge, at least in the verb domain. |
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| Autores principais: | Flores, Cristina |
| Outros Autores: | Rinke, Esther; Torregrossa, Jacopo; Weingärtner, Daniel |
| Assunto: | German Portuguese bilingual children verb morphology verb phrase, word order Humanidades::Línguas e Literaturas Reduzir as desigualdades |
| Ano: | 2022 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | artigo |
| Tipo de acesso: | acesso aberto |
| Instituição associada: | Universidade do Minho |
| Idioma: | inglês |
| Origem: | RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho |
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| author | Flores, Cristina |
| author2 | Rinke, Esther Torregrossa, Jacopo Weingärtner, Daniel |
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| datacite.creators.creator.creatorName.fl_str_mv | Flores, Cristina Rinke, Esther Torregrossa, Jacopo Weingärtner, Daniel |
| datacite.date.Accepted.fl_str_mv | 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z |
| datacite.date.available.fl_str_mv | 2022-10-13T18:24:29Z |
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| dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv | Flores, Cristina Rinke, Esther Torregrossa, Jacopo Weingärtner, Daniel |
| dc.date.Accepted.fl_str_mv | 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z |
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| description | The present study analyses written narratives of 60 Portuguese-German bilingual children between 8 and 15 years living in Switzerland, in both their languages. Portuguese is the children’s heritage language (HL) and German the environmental language. The analysis focusses on the children’s lexical, morphological and structural knowledge in the verb domain (verb types, agreement morphology, verbal tense, word order within the VP, orthography) and aims to determine the role of language dominance, general proficiency, current age and age of onset of bilingualism (AoO) in bilingual language acquisition at later stages of development (i.e., at school-age). The results show that the bilingual children display stable syntactic and morphological knowledge in both their languages. Lexical knowledge is positively correlated with age and proficiency. Morphological and syntactic deviations are residual in both languages and not correlated with AoO. No effects of cross-linguistic influence are observed. We only find performance differences between the Portuguese and the German corpus at the level of orthography. We conclude that in the analysed age span children have received enough exposure to both languages to develop stable morphological and syntactic knowledge, at least in the verb domain. |
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| spelling | engOpen Library of HumanitiesporThe present study analyses written narratives of 60 Portuguese-German bilingual children between 8 and 15 years living in Switzerland, in both their languages. Portuguese is the children’s heritage language (HL) and German the environmental language. The analysis focusses on the children’s lexical, morphological and structural knowledge in the verb domain (verb types, agreement morphology, verbal tense, word order within the VP, orthography) and aims to determine the role of language dominance, general proficiency, current age and age of onset of bilingualism (AoO) in bilingual language acquisition at later stages of development (i.e., at school-age). The results show that the bilingual children display stable syntactic and morphological knowledge in both their languages. Lexical knowledge is positively correlated with age and proficiency. Morphological and syntactic deviations are residual in both languages and not correlated with AoO. No effects of cross-linguistic influence are observed. We only find performance differences between the Portuguese and the German corpus at the level of orthography. We conclude that in the analysed age span children have received enough exposure to both languages to develop stable morphological and syntactic knowledge, at least in the verb domain.application/pdfengLanguage separation and stable syntactic knowledge: verbs and verb phrases in bilingual children’s narrativesFlores, CristinaRinke, EstherTorregrossa, JacopoWeingärtner, DanielHostingInstitutionOrganizationalRepositóriUM - Universidade do Minhoe-mailmailto:repositorium@usdb.uminho.ptrepositorium@usdb.uminho.ptCITATIONFlores, C., Rinke, E., Torregrossa, J., & Weingärtner, D. (2022). Language separation and stable syntactic knowledge: verbs and verb phrases in bilingual children’s narratives. Empirical Approaches to Portuguese Linguistics - New insights from studies in various areas of grammar. Open Library of the Humanities. http://doi.org/10.16995/jpl.8043EISSNIsPartOf2397-5563DOIIsPartOf10.16995/jpl.80432022-10-13T18:24:29Z20222022-01-01T00:00:00ZHandlehttps://hdl.handle.net/1822/80131http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2open accessGermanPortuguesebilingual childrenverb morphologyverb phrase,word orderhttp://www.oecd.org/science/inno/38235147.pdfFields of Science and Technology (FOS)Humanidades::Línguas e Literaturashttps://sdgs.un.org/goalsSustainable Development Goals (SDG)Reduzir as desigualdades677305 bytesliteraturehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501journal article2022http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/openAccesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2application/pdffulltexthttps://repositorium.uminho.pt/bitstreams/e7b8bbd8-0937-40d1-bb19-572d66ca377c/download |
| spellingShingle | Language separation and stable syntactic knowledge: verbs and verb phrases in bilingual children’s narratives Flores, Cristina German Portuguese bilingual children verb morphology verb phrase, word order Humanidades::Línguas e Literaturas Reduzir as desigualdades |
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| title | Language separation and stable syntactic knowledge: verbs and verb phrases in bilingual children’s narratives |
| title_full | Language separation and stable syntactic knowledge: verbs and verb phrases in bilingual children’s narratives |
| title_fullStr | Language separation and stable syntactic knowledge: verbs and verb phrases in bilingual children’s narratives |
| title_full_unstemmed | Language separation and stable syntactic knowledge: verbs and verb phrases in bilingual children’s narratives |
| title_short | Language separation and stable syntactic knowledge: verbs and verb phrases in bilingual children’s narratives |
| title_sort | Language separation and stable syntactic knowledge: verbs and verb phrases in bilingual children’s narratives |
| topic | German Portuguese bilingual children verb morphology verb phrase, word order Humanidades::Línguas e Literaturas Reduzir as desigualdades |
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