Production and on-line comprehension of definiteness in English and Dutch by monolingual and sequential bilingual children

Chondrogianni, Vasiliki; Vasić, Nada; Marinis, Theodoros; Blom, Elma

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“…the book ), even among those children who dropped articles in 75% or more of obligatory contexts in production. Chondrogianni et al (2015) conclude that the L2-children have an underlying representation of articles in their grammar, and attribute article omission in production to non-grammatical factors, such as prosodic reasons or difficulties with retrieval. Of course, the fact that children exhibit sensitivity to missing articles does not mean that adults will show similar sensitivity; our study uses a methodology similar to that of Chondrogianni et al (2015) to examine whether adult L2-learners, like child L2-learners, are able to integrate articles into their L2-grammar.…”

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Knowledge of indefinite articles in L2-English: Online vs. offline performance

Ionin¹,

Choi

Liu

2019

Second Language Research

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This study uses both offline and online tasks in order to investigate whether second language learners of English from an article-less first-language (Mandarin) are able to integrate the indefinite article into their grammar despite the lack of articles in their first language. This article reports on two studies, one on learners’ sensitivity to errors of article omission and one on learners’ sensitivity to errors of article misuse. The results indicate that learners show quite native-like sensitivity to errors with articles online, and in fact perform in a more target-like manner in an online task than in a traditional offline judgment task. The findings of this study provide evidence against the Morphological Congruency Hypothesis in that they indicate that learners can represent a new morphological category (in this case, the indefinite article) in their Interlanguage grammar.

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Knowledge of indefinite articles in L2-English: Online vs. offline performance

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Liu

2019

Second Language Research

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“…Other aspects related to definiteness have been investigated, such as the semantic constraints on article choice, in Turkish-English and Turkish-Dutch bilingual children(Chondrogianni et al 2015).…”

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The Development of Subject Position in Dutch-Dominant Heritage Speakers of Spanish: From Age 9 to Adulthood

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This exploratory study investigates the knowledge of word order in intransitive sentences by heritage speakers of Spanish of different age groups: 9-year-olds, 13-year-olds and adults. In doing so, we aim to fill a gap in the heritage language literature, which, to date, has mainly focused on adult heritage speakers and preschool bilingual children. The results from a judgment task reveal that child- and adolescent heritage speakers do not entirely resemble monolingual age-matched children in the acquisition of subjects in Spanish, nor do they assimilate adult heritage speakers. The data suggest that several different processes can occur simultaneously in the acquisition of word order in heritage speakers: monolingual-like acquisition, delayed acquisition, and attrition. An analysis of the influence of extraneous variables suggests that most of these effects are likely to be the consequence of quantitatively reduced input in the heritage language and increased input in the majority language.

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“…Several studies have found that cross-linguistic influence may vary between tasks (e.g., Nicoladis, 2002; Chondrogianni & Marinis, 2012; Chondrogianni, Vasić, Marinis & Blom, 2015). For instance, Nicoladis (2002) showed that French–English bilingual children made more errors in compound nouns than their monolingual peers.…”

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Keeping two languages apart: Connective processing in both languages of Russian–German bilinguals

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Multilingual children are faced with the task of selectively using the linguistic systems of their languages. Previous research has shown that although bilinguals may make more errors in production and comprehension than their monolingual peers, less cognitively demanding processing experiments may reveal target-like performance. This has been attributed to several factors, among which language transfer and processing limitations. In this study we investigate the processing of additive connectives in both languages of German–Russian bilingual children using the Visual World Paradigm. Previous research has shown that bilingual children make many errors in the production of these connectives in Russian. The results show that the processing behaviour in both languages of the bilingual children does not differ from that of their monolingual peers. This finding is compatible with the view that errors in production and in more demanding comprehension tasks are due to processing limitations.

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Production and on-line comprehension of definiteness in English and Dutch by monolingual and sequential bilingual children

Cited by 22 publications

References 47 publications

Knowledge of indefinite articles in L2-English: Online vs. offline performance

Knowledge of indefinite articles in L2-English: Online vs. offline performance

The Development of Subject Position in Dutch-Dominant Heritage Speakers of Spanish: From Age 9 to Adulthood

Keeping two languages apart: Connective processing in both languages of Russian–German bilinguals

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