Title :

The development of determiners in the context of French–English bilingualism: a study of cross-linguistic influence

Author(s) :

Hervé, Coralie [Auteur]
Savoirs, Textes, Langage (STL) - UMR 8163 [STL]
Serratrice, Ludovica [Auteur]
University of Reading [UOR]

Journal title :

Journal of Child Language

Pages :

767-787

Publisher :

Cambridge University Press (CUP)

Publication date :

2018-05

ISSN :

0305-0009

HAL domain(s) :

Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Linguistique

English abstract : [en]

This paper reports the preliminary results of a study examining the role of structural overlap, language exposure, and language use on cross-linguistic influence (CLI) in bilingual first language acquisition. We focus on ...
Show more >This paper reports the preliminary results of a study examining the role of structural overlap, language exposure, and language use on cross-linguistic influence (CLI) in bilingual first language acquisition. We focus on the longitudinal development of determiners in a corpus of two French-English children between the ages of ; and ;. The results display bi-directional CLI in the rate of development, i.e., accelerated development in English and a minor delay in French. Unidirectional CLI from English to French was instead observed in the significantly higher rate of ungrammatical determiner omissions in plural and generic contexts than in singular specific contexts in French. These findings suggest that other language-internal mechanisms may be at play. They also lend support to the role of expressive abilities on the magnitude of this phenomenon. The oretical bac kground Although bilingual children's linguistic development largely follows the path of monolinguals (De Houwer, ), there is ample evidence that bilinguals' linguistic behaviour may occasionally differ from a quantitative and/or qualitative standpoint from that of monolingual children. ThisShow less >

Language :

Anglais

Peer reviewed article :

Oui

Audience :

Internationale

Popular science :

Non

Collections :

• Savoirs, Textes, Langage (STL) - UMR 8163

Source :

Harvested from HAL