L’expression des procès spatiaux causatifs chez les apprenants francophones du chinois

Arslangul, Arnaud; Hendriks, Henriëtte; Hickmann, Maya; Demagny, Annie-Claude

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“…Ji and Hohenstein, 2014) and French (cf. Arslangul et al, 2018) L2 learners of Chinese showed that such atypical constructions, as in (38), are highly persistent even at the advanced levels of proficiency. But significantly, the child bilinguals in Tusun ( 2019) also produced such atypical constructions, exclusively with ACROSS events as well.…”

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Uyghur–Chinese Adult Bilinguals’ Construal of Voluntary Motion Events

Tusun

2022

Front. Psychol.

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The study examined the implications of Talmy motion event typology and Slobin’s thinking-for-speaking hypothesis for the context of Uyghur–Chinese early successive bilingualism. Uyghur and Chinese represent genetically distant languages (Turkic vs. Sino-Tibetan) that nonetheless share important framing properties in the motion domain, i.e., verb-framing. This study thus aimed to establish how this structural overlap would inform bilingual speakers’ construal of motion events. Additionally, it sought to offer an “end state” perspective to a previous study on Uyghur–Chinese child bilinguals and to shed light on issues around the longevity of crosslinguistic influence. Thirty adult Uyghur–Chinese early successive bilinguals were invited to describe a set of voluntary motion events (e.g., “a man runs across the road”). Their verbalizations, alongside those from 24 monolingual Uyghur and 12 monolingual Chinese speakers were systematically analyzed with regard to the kind of linguistic devices used to encode key components of motion (main verb vs. other devices), the frequency with which the components are expressed together (Manner + Path) or separately (Path or Manner) and how they are syntactically packaged. The findings show that the bilinguals’ thinking-for-speaking patterns are largely language-specific, with little crosslinguistic influence. A comparison of our findings with previous studies on Uyghur-Chinese child bilinguals revealed no developmental change either in the analyzed aspects of motion descriptions or in patterns of crosslinguistic influence. As such, the findings lend support to accounts that propose crosslinguistic influence to be a developmental phenomenon.

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Uyghur–Chinese Adult Bilinguals’ Construal of Voluntary Motion Events

Tusun

2022

Front. Psychol.

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Introducing a new protagonist in L2 Chinese narratives: Syntactic construction and information organization

Arslangul

2023

Language Teaching Research

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Building a complex discourse is not an easy task for second language learners. This study investigates how learners that have French as their first language (L1) and Chinese as a second language (L2) convey the function of referent introduction in narratives. It aims to identify which syntactic constructions are used to highlight new information and relate it to given information at the utterance level, and how learners organize information between utterances to ensure discourse cohesion. The procedure used consists of the analysis of an oral corpus collected from five groups of participants ( N = 110): French and Chinese native speakers, and three groups of learners (low, intermediate and advanced levels). The stimulus of the elicited task is a comic strip. The results show that low learners mostly follow the canonical word order, while intermediate learners demonstrate more syntactic diversity but still differ from native speakers at the discourse level. Advanced learners almost achieved native-like proficiency and demonstrated only one difference when compared with the target pattern that lies in the lexical-semantic characteristics of the predicate used.

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L’expression des procès spatiaux causatifs chez les apprenants francophones du chinois

Cited by 2 publications

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Uyghur–Chinese Adult Bilinguals’ Construal of Voluntary Motion Events

Uyghur–Chinese Adult Bilinguals’ Construal of Voluntary Motion Events

Introducing a new protagonist in L2 Chinese narratives: Syntactic construction and information organization

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