Language separation and stable syntactic knowledge: verbs and verb phrases in bilingual children’s narratives

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Autor(a) principal: Flores, Cristina
Data de Publicação: 2022
Outros Autores: Rinke, Esther, Torregrossa, Jacopo, Weingärtner, Daniel
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: https://hdl.handle.net/1822/80131
Resumo: The present study analyses written narratives of 60 Portuguese-German bilingual children between 8 and 15 years living in Switzerland, in both their languages. Portuguese is the children’s heritage language (HL) and German the environmental language. The analysis focusses on the children’s lexical, morphological and structural knowledge in the verb domain (verb types, agreement morphology, verbal tense, word order within the VP, orthography) and aims to determine the role of language dominance, general proficiency, current age and age of onset of bilingualism (AoO) in bilingual language acquisition at later stages of development (i.e., at school-age). The results show that the bilingual children display stable syntactic and morphological knowledge in both their languages. Lexical knowledge is positively correlated with age and proficiency. Morphological and syntactic deviations are residual in both languages and not correlated with AoO. No effects of cross-linguistic influence are observed. We only find performance differences between the Portuguese and the German corpus at the level of orthography. We conclude that in the analysed age span children have received enough exposure to both languages to develop stable morphological and syntactic knowledge, at least in the verb domain.
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spelling Language separation and stable syntactic knowledge: verbs and verb phrases in bilingual children’s narrativesGermanPortuguesebilingual childrenverb morphologyverb phrase,word orderHumanidades::Línguas e LiteraturasReduzir as desigualdadesThe present study analyses written narratives of 60 Portuguese-German bilingual children between 8 and 15 years living in Switzerland, in both their languages. Portuguese is the children’s heritage language (HL) and German the environmental language. The analysis focusses on the children’s lexical, morphological and structural knowledge in the verb domain (verb types, agreement morphology, verbal tense, word order within the VP, orthography) and aims to determine the role of language dominance, general proficiency, current age and age of onset of bilingualism (AoO) in bilingual language acquisition at later stages of development (i.e., at school-age). The results show that the bilingual children display stable syntactic and morphological knowledge in both their languages. Lexical knowledge is positively correlated with age and proficiency. Morphological and syntactic deviations are residual in both languages and not correlated with AoO. No effects of cross-linguistic influence are observed. We only find performance differences between the Portuguese and the German corpus at the level of orthography. We conclude that in the analysed age span children have received enough exposure to both languages to develop stable morphological and syntactic knowledge, at least in the verb domain.We would like to thank Dr. Maria de Lurdes Santos Gonçalves for coordinating the data collection in Switzerland and the teachers of the Camões, Institute of Cooperation and Language, I.P. for helping us collecting them. We are grateful to all the children and to their parents for participating in the study. Finally, we thank the editors of the Issue ‘Empirical Approaches to Portuguese Linguistics - New insights from studies in various areas of grammar’ and the reviewers for their constructive comments on previous versions of the paper.Open Library of HumanitiesUniversidade do MinhoFlores, CristinaRinke, EstherTorregrossa, JacopoWeingärtner, Daniel20222022-01-01T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/1822/80131engFlores, C., Rinke, E., Torregrossa, J., & Weingärtner, D. (2022). Language separation and stable syntactic knowledge: verbs and verb phrases in bilingual children’s narratives. Empirical Approaches to Portuguese Linguistics - New insights from studies in various areas of grammar. Open Library of the Humanities. http://doi.org/10.16995/jpl.80432397-556310.16995/jpl.8043https://jpl.letras.ulisboa.pt/article/id/8043/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2023-12-23T01:30:32Zoai:repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt:1822/80131Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T19:13:51.340349Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Language separation and stable syntactic knowledge: verbs and verb phrases in bilingual children’s narratives
title Language separation and stable syntactic knowledge: verbs and verb phrases in bilingual children’s narratives
spellingShingle Language separation and stable syntactic knowledge: verbs and verb phrases in bilingual children’s narratives
Flores, Cristina
German
Portuguese
bilingual children
verb morphology
verb phrase,
word order
Humanidades::Línguas e Literaturas
Reduzir as desigualdades
title_short Language separation and stable syntactic knowledge: verbs and verb phrases in bilingual children’s narratives
title_full Language separation and stable syntactic knowledge: verbs and verb phrases in bilingual children’s narratives
title_fullStr Language separation and stable syntactic knowledge: verbs and verb phrases in bilingual children’s narratives
title_full_unstemmed Language separation and stable syntactic knowledge: verbs and verb phrases in bilingual children’s narratives
title_sort Language separation and stable syntactic knowledge: verbs and verb phrases in bilingual children’s narratives
author Flores, Cristina
author_facet Flores, Cristina
Rinke, Esther
Torregrossa, Jacopo
Weingärtner, Daniel
author_role author
author2 Rinke, Esther
Torregrossa, Jacopo
Weingärtner, Daniel
author2_role author
author
author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Universidade do Minho
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Flores, Cristina
Rinke, Esther
Torregrossa, Jacopo
Weingärtner, Daniel
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv German
Portuguese
bilingual children
verb morphology
verb phrase,
word order
Humanidades::Línguas e Literaturas
Reduzir as desigualdades
topic German
Portuguese
bilingual children
verb morphology
verb phrase,
word order
Humanidades::Línguas e Literaturas
Reduzir as desigualdades
description The present study analyses written narratives of 60 Portuguese-German bilingual children between 8 and 15 years living in Switzerland, in both their languages. Portuguese is the children’s heritage language (HL) and German the environmental language. The analysis focusses on the children’s lexical, morphological and structural knowledge in the verb domain (verb types, agreement morphology, verbal tense, word order within the VP, orthography) and aims to determine the role of language dominance, general proficiency, current age and age of onset of bilingualism (AoO) in bilingual language acquisition at later stages of development (i.e., at school-age). The results show that the bilingual children display stable syntactic and morphological knowledge in both their languages. Lexical knowledge is positively correlated with age and proficiency. Morphological and syntactic deviations are residual in both languages and not correlated with AoO. No effects of cross-linguistic influence are observed. We only find performance differences between the Portuguese and the German corpus at the level of orthography. We conclude that in the analysed age span children have received enough exposure to both languages to develop stable morphological and syntactic knowledge, at least in the verb domain.
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