1. Finite Verb Placement in French Language Change and in Bilingual German–French Acquisition

Schmeißer, Anika; Jansen, Veronika

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“…Döpke (1998) has shown that in German, English-German bilingual children tend to extend the use of the verb-object (VO)-order-which German uses with finite verbs-to non-finite final verbs-which instantiate the OV-order and do not allow for the VO-pattern. These data can be analyzed in terms of transfer from English-which has only the VO-order-to German-that allows for both orders (albeit in different contexts), along the lines of what has been proposed by the structural accounts reviewed in Section 1-see also Schmeißer and Jansen (2016) for a related account concerning the complexity of syntactic derivations. If this is the case, the verb-second (V2) property of German (which allows for subject-verb (S-V) and constituent-verb-subject (XP-V-S) word orders) should not be transferred to Italian (which is more consistently S-V)-see also Repetto and Müller (2010).…”

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Teasing Apart the Effects of Dominance, Transfer, and Processing in Reference Production by German–Italian Bilingual Adolescents

Torregrossa

Bongartz

2018

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This paper intends to test different accounts of bilingual reference production against the production of referring expressions in Italian by German-Italian bilingual adolescents. In particular, we investigate to what extent bilingual referring expressions involve transfer from one language to the other, result from processing and dominance variables, and are the outcome of a process of language change. We will show that each of these hypotheses makes a precise prediction about which referential strategy bilinguals should adopt. The production of referring expressions is examined in the context of a story-telling task. Based on the analysis of overspecified forms, clitic omissions, and agreement mismatches, as well as on correlations with dominance factors, we argue in favor of the relevance of dominance and processing factors for bilingual reference production. Finally, we verify the possibility of generalizing our conclusions to a different linguistic domain, concerning the expression of word order in main clauses.

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