Chapter 10. Comprehension of Differential Object Marking by Hindi heritage speakers

Bhatia, Archna; Montrul, Silvina

doi:10.1075/tilar.26.bha10

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“…DOM requires integration of syntax, semantics, morphology, discourse and related interfaces (Montrul 2011;Sorace 2011;Avram & Tomescu 2020), and is susceptible to dominant language transfer in bilingualism in general. There is increasing evidence from heritage languages that this is the case: Montrul, Bhatt & Bhatia (2012), Montrul, Bhatt & Girju (2015), Bhatia & Montrul (2020), and confirmed that obligatory DOM is often omitted by heritage speakers of Spanish, Hindi, and of Romanian in the United States. By contrast, Yager et al (2015) and Rodríguez-Ordóñez (2017) show that DOM emerged as an innovation in heritage speakers of German in the United States, and in Basque-Spanish bilinguals in Spain.…”

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“…The omission of required DOM with animate specific direct objects has been well established in the literature on Spanish as a heritage language in contact with English (Montrul & Bowles 2009;Montrul & Sánchez-Walker 2013;Montrul 2014;Arechabaleta 2019; 2020 among many others), with French (Grosjean & Py 1991), and with Dutch (Irizarri van Suchtelen 2016) and German (Pomino, Schmitz & Neuburger 2018). It has also been found in Hindi as a heritage language (Montrul, Bhatt & Bhatia 2012;Montrul, Bhatia, Bhatt & Puri 2019;Bhatia & Montrul 2020). Montrul, Bhatt & Girju (2015) examined the extent to which Romanian DOM is omitted in required contexts in adult heritage speakers of Romanian living in the United States.…”

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Vulnerability and stability of Differential Object Marking in Romanian heritage speakers

Montrul

Bateman

2020

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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Differential Object Marking (DOM) marks some objects overtly with specific morphology and is regulated by several semantic and pragmatic factors. DOM exhibits synchronic and diachronic variability within and across languages, especially in bilingual contexts, and the study of heritage languages offers a unique perspective on the forces that shape it. This study investigates knowledge of DOM in Romanian and its interaction with accusative clitic doubling (CD) in native speakers of Romanian in Romania and first- and second-generation Romanian immigrants to the United States. The results of an oral production task, a written production task, and a written and auditory comprehension task show convergence between the adult immigrant group and the Romanians in the homeland. When divergent uses of DOM and accusative clitic omission occurred, these were mostly produced by the heritage speakers with early onset of bilingualism, consistent with findings of age effects in heritage language acquisition and a Differential Access Model of heritage language grammars. We discuss these results in the contexts of DOM vulnerability in other heritage languages, such as Spanish, and consider why DOM in Romanian might be comparatively better preserved by the adult immigrants and heritage speakers.

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