Encoding Transfer Events in Surinamese Javanese

Villerius, Sophie; Moro, Francesca R.; Klamer, Marian

doi:10.1163/19552629-01203007

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“…For instance, in a study of the dative alternation among Ambon Malay-Dutch bilinguals in the Netherlands, Moro and Klamer (2015) observed an increase in the frequency of DO constructions as a result of cross-linguistic influence from Dutch. A similar increase in frequency of DO constructions was reported by Villerius, Moro, and Klamer (2019) for Surinamese Javanese, due to the influence of Sranantongo. Thus, we know that, even in contact situations that involve shallow time (50-60 years, as for heritage languages, such as Ambon Malay in the Netherlands), give-constructions are vulnerable.…”

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confidence: 83%

“…The overgeneralization of the SVC with two verbs is a case of frequential copying (Johanson 2002:292). This type of copying is a change that is typically found in bilingual communities, such as heritage language communities, whereby bilingual children copy the frequency of a construction from one language to their 'other' language (see, e.g., Moro and Klamer 2015;Villerius, Moro and Klamer 2019). The SVCs with three verbs are an example of grammatical calquing, typically found among bilingual (pre)adolescents.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Give-constructions in Alorese are a suitable domain to investigate contact-induced change for three reasons. First, a number of studies in the field of bilingualism and heritage languages have shown that giveconstructions are vulnerable to contact (Irizarri van Suchtelen 2014;Moro and Klamer 2015;Kootstra and Şahin 2018;Villerius, Moro, and Klamer 2019). Their vulnerability is due to the fact that give-constructions allow variable syntactic encodings, and such syntactic variation has been proven to be the locus of cross-linguistic influence (Silva-Corvalán 1994, 2008Johanson 2002;Backus 2004;Muysken 2013).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Contact-Induced Change in Alorese Give-Constructions

Moro¹,

Fricke²

2020

Oceanic Linguistics

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This article describes and compares give-constructions in three languages of eastern Indonesia, Lamaholot (Austronesian), Alorese (Austronesian), and Adang (Papuan), with the aim of detecting structural convergence in Alorese. Lamaholot and Alorese are closely related, while Alorese has undergone contact-induced change due to contact with Papuan languages spoken in close proximity, such as Adang. To investigate structural convergence, we systematically compare the types and frequencies of give-constructions in these three languages. The data were obtained by using a common set of eight visual stimuli. The results show that Alorese and Adang share a preference for encoding 'give' events in serial verb constructions, while Lamaholot uses prepositional object constructions or multiverb constructions. We conclude that, in the domain of give-constructions, there is a higher degree of structural isomorphism between Alorese and Adang than there is between Alorese and its sister language Lamaholot. Such structural isomorphism is the outcome of contactinduced convergence; more specifically, we propose that convergence took place by a process of grammatical calquing carried out by children and preadolescents who were bilingual in Alorese and one or more Papuan languages.

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Contact-Induced Change in Alorese Give-Constructions

Moro¹,

Fricke²

2020

Oceanic Linguistics

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“…Misuses and underemployment were attributed to incomplete acquisition or to influence from Dutch as the speakers’ dominant language. SVC underuse (compared to their homeland peers) was also observed among second and third generation Malay heritage language speakers in the Netherlands (Moro, 2014, 2016), and also among Javanese heritage language speakers in Suriname (Villerius, 2019). These findings indicate L1 influence at the linguistic level.…”

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Crosslinguistic influence on English and Chinese L2 speakers’ conceptualization of event series

Tang

Vanek

Roberts

2020

International Journal of Bilingualism

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Aims and objectives/purpose/research question: The expression of event series varies across languages in intriguing ways. One key difference is that in some linguistic systems, such as Chinese, events can be tightly sequenced using serial verb constructions (SVCs), for example, qù kāi mén ‘go open door’. Linguistic systems with this property are known as serializing, and those without it, such as English, as non-serializing. This paper explores whether second language (L2) learners with a serializing first language (L1) conceptually transfer tight L1-based event serialization patterns into their non-serializing L2, and, if L2 learners with a non-serializing L1 acquire tight SVC-modulated event serialization in the L2. Design/methodology/approach: To investigate this, a task was created to estimate temporal distances between events on a time axis. Participants were asked to circle two numbers on the axis (0 = far past, 9 = far future) based on their understanding of when two events expressed by two verbs in each stimulus sentence happen. Data and analysis: Results showed that Chinese learners of English estimated significantly shorter temporal distances between multiple events in English SVC-like sentences compared to English natives. Tighter temporal sequencing in L2 English is interpreted as L1-based conceptual transfer of event serialization patterns. In the opposite direction, English learners of Chinese marked events in Chinese SVCs as significantly further apart than did Chinese natives, also showing that their event serialization is L1-based. Originality: This study demonstrates for the first time crosslinguistic influence on the conceptual level in the domain of event serialization. Significance/implications: The reported findings inform L2 acquisition research by providing empirical support for the idea that L1-based event serialization patterns influence how L2 learners conceptualize event distances, and this holds in both directions, from a serializing to a non-serializing language as well as vice versa.

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“…Finally, Villerius (2019) studied Javanese as a heritage language in the South-American former Dutch colony Surinam, where there has been a Javanese community since the 1870s. The Javanese migrants became bilingual first in Javanese and Sranantongo, and later on Dutch also became an important language in their repertoire.…”

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The case for contact induced-change in Heritage Languages

Muysken

2019

Bilingualism

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Polinsky and Scontras (Polinsky & Scontras, 2019) study the development of language competence under unbalanced bilingualism, resulting in 'heritage languages'. They focus on "quantity and quality of the input from which the heritage grammar is acquired, and the economy of online resources when operating in a less dominant language." This commentary addresses the (in my view) rather superficial treatment of the role of transfer in heritage languages in an otherwise very thoughtful programmatic paper. This is what the authors write:

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Encoding Transfer Events in Surinamese Javanese

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Contact-Induced Change in Alorese Give-Constructions

Contact-Induced Change in Alorese Give-Constructions

Crosslinguistic influence on English and Chinese L2 speakers’ conceptualization of event series

The case for contact induced-change in Heritage Languages

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