Comparing heritage speakers and late L2-learners of European Portuguese: verb movement, VP ellipsis and adverb placement
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Resumo: | This study compares the performance of Portuguese-German heritage children and adult L2 speakers of European Portuguese whose L1 is German with respect to two aspects of grammar, adverb placement and VP-ellipsis, which depend on a core syntactic property of the language, verb movement. The results show that both groups have acquired V-to- I and adverb placement, showing no influence of a V2 grammar. Performance in the VP-ellipsis task is more complex: heritage children produce VP-ellipsis at the level of controls, as opposed to L2 speakers; however, both L2 and heritage speakers show that cross-linguistic influence may produce a preference for pronoun substitution over VPellipsis in a task asking for redundancy resolution. Nevertheless, given that overall results show that heritage children perform at the level of L1 children, we take our results to support approaches to heritage bilingualism which suggest the development of an intact grammar in childhood. |
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Comparing heritage speakers and late L2-learners of European Portuguese: verb movement, VP ellipsis and adverb placementHeritage speakersL2VP-EllipsisVerb movementPortugueseGermanThis study compares the performance of Portuguese-German heritage children and adult L2 speakers of European Portuguese whose L1 is German with respect to two aspects of grammar, adverb placement and VP-ellipsis, which depend on a core syntactic property of the language, verb movement. The results show that both groups have acquired V-to- I and adverb placement, showing no influence of a V2 grammar. Performance in the VP-ellipsis task is more complex: heritage children produce VP-ellipsis at the level of controls, as opposed to L2 speakers; however, both L2 and heritage speakers show that cross-linguistic influence may produce a preference for pronoun substitution over VPellipsis in a task asking for redundancy resolution. Nevertheless, given that overall results show that heritage children perform at the level of L1 children, we take our results to support approaches to heritage bilingualism which suggest the development of an intact grammar in childhood.John Benjamins PublishingRepositório da Universidade de LisboaSantos, Ana LúciaFlores, Cristina2018-10-10T09:22:53Z20162016-01-01T00:00:00Zinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10451/34966engSantos, Ana Lúcia; Flores, Cristina (2016) “Comparing heritage speakers and late L2-learners of European Portuguese: verb movement, VP ellipsis and adverb placement”. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism.6.3, pp. 308-340. Amesterdão: John Benjamins Publishing1879-9264info: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:RCAAP2023-11-08T16:30:18Zoai:repositorio.ul.pt:10451/34966Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openaireopendoar:71602024-03-19T21:49:24.788558Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse |
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Comparing heritage speakers and late L2-learners of European Portuguese: verb movement, VP ellipsis and adverb placement |
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Comparing heritage speakers and late L2-learners of European Portuguese: verb movement, VP ellipsis and adverb placement |
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Comparing heritage speakers and late L2-learners of European Portuguese: verb movement, VP ellipsis and adverb placement Santos, Ana Lúcia Heritage speakers L2 VP-Ellipsis Verb movement Portuguese German |
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Comparing heritage speakers and late L2-learners of European Portuguese: verb movement, VP ellipsis and adverb placement |
title_full |
Comparing heritage speakers and late L2-learners of European Portuguese: verb movement, VP ellipsis and adverb placement |
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Comparing heritage speakers and late L2-learners of European Portuguese: verb movement, VP ellipsis and adverb placement |
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Comparing heritage speakers and late L2-learners of European Portuguese: verb movement, VP ellipsis and adverb placement |
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Comparing heritage speakers and late L2-learners of European Portuguese: verb movement, VP ellipsis and adverb placement |
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Santos, Ana Lúcia |
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Santos, Ana Lúcia Flores, Cristina |
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Flores, Cristina |
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Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa |
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Santos, Ana Lúcia Flores, Cristina |
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Heritage speakers L2 VP-Ellipsis Verb movement Portuguese German |
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Heritage speakers L2 VP-Ellipsis Verb movement Portuguese German |
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This study compares the performance of Portuguese-German heritage children and adult L2 speakers of European Portuguese whose L1 is German with respect to two aspects of grammar, adverb placement and VP-ellipsis, which depend on a core syntactic property of the language, verb movement. The results show that both groups have acquired V-to- I and adverb placement, showing no influence of a V2 grammar. Performance in the VP-ellipsis task is more complex: heritage children produce VP-ellipsis at the level of controls, as opposed to L2 speakers; however, both L2 and heritage speakers show that cross-linguistic influence may produce a preference for pronoun substitution over VPellipsis in a task asking for redundancy resolution. Nevertheless, given that overall results show that heritage children perform at the level of L1 children, we take our results to support approaches to heritage bilingualism which suggest the development of an intact grammar in childhood. |
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2016 |
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2016 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z 2018-10-10T09:22:53Z |
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Santos, Ana Lúcia; Flores, Cristina (2016) “Comparing heritage speakers and late L2-learners of European Portuguese: verb movement, VP ellipsis and adverb placement”. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism.6.3, pp. 308-340. Amesterdão: John Benjamins Publishing 1879-9264 |
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