Age and input effects in the acquisition of mood in Heritage Portuguese

Flores, Cristina; Santos, Ana Lúcia; Jesus, Alice; Marques, Rui

doi:10.1017/s0305000916000222

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“…This means that the accumulated amount of contact with the HL modulates the development of the HL system in the domain of direct object expression. Similar effects of amount of input on the grammatical development of home languages have been found in many other domains (Flores et al 2017b for mood choice in EP; Gathercole and Thomas 2009 for grammatical gender in Welsh; Thordardottir 2015, for English and French verbal morphology).…”

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Heritage Portuguese and Heritage Polish in Contact with German: More Evidence on the Production of Objects

2019

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This paper compares the production of different types of direct objects by Portuguese–German and Polish–German bilingual school-aged children in their heritage languages (HLs), Polish and European Portuguese (EP). Given that the two target languages display identical options of object realization, our main research question is whether the two HLs develop in a similar way in bilingual children. More precisely, we aim at investigating whether bilingual children acquiring Polish and EP are sensitive to accessibility and animacy when realizing a direct object in their HL. The results of a production experiment show that this is indeed the case and that the two groups of bilinguals do not differ from each other, although they may overgeneralize null objects or full noun phrases to some extent. We conclude that the bilingual acquisition of object realization is guided by the relevant properties in the target languages and is not influenced by the contact language, German.

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Heritage Portuguese and Heritage Polish in Contact with German: More Evidence on the Production of Objects

2019

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“…Participants were selected based on their age at onset of bilingualism, which was taken as their age of arrival in the United Kingdom. As Flores, Santos, Jesus, and Marques () have pointed out, adult heritage speaker investigations “cannot distinguish effects of acquisition from effects of subsequent language attrition” (p. 797). This is especially the case for late‐acquired properties, like noun and relative clauses, which have been reported not to stabilize before the ages of 5 or 6 years in monolingual Turkish speakers (Aksu‐Koç, ; Slobin, ).…”

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First Language Attrition as a Function of Age at Onset of Bilingualism: First Language Attainment of Turkish–English Bilinguals in the United Kingdom

Karayayla

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2018

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This investigation aimed to provide insights into the controversial debate on the role that age at onset of bilingualism plays in human language capacity with a focus on what it entails for first language (L1) attrition. L1 performance of Turkish immigrants (n = 57) in the United Kingdom with age at onset ranging between 7 and 34 years was compared to that of Turkish monolingual controls (n = 29) across two linguistic properties: structural complexity and accent. Findings generally showed that although the immigrants achieved nativelike proficiency with respect to the overall structural complexity of their L1, this was not the case for accent as those with an earlier age of onset were less likely to sound like native Turkish speakers. We discuss these findings in relation to two competing theoretical models of age effects and suggest that attrition data need to be better accommodated within these models. Open Practices This article has been awarded an Open Materials badge. All materials are publicly accessible via the IRIS Repository at https://www.iris-database.org. Learn more about the Open Practices badges from the Center for Open Science: https://osf.io/tvyxz/wiki.

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“…). Similarly, whereas chronological age has been shown to lead to improvement of HL performance (e.g.,Armon-Lotem, Walters, & Gagarina, 2011;Flores, 2015;Flores, Santos, Jesus, & Marques, 2017), other studies have found no or…”

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Case marking and word order in Greek heritage children

Chondrogianni

Schwartz

2020

J. Child Lang.

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This study examined the linguistic and individual-level factors that render case marking a vulnerable domain in English-dominant Greek heritage children. We also investigated whether heritage language (HL) children can use case-marking cues to interpret (non-)canonical sentences in Greek similarly to their monolingual peers. A group of six- to twelve-year-old Greek heritage children in New York City and a control group of age-matched monolingual children living in Greece participated in a production and a picture verification task targeting case marking and (non-)canonical word order in Greek. HL children produced syncretic inflectional errors, also found in preschool monolingual children. In the comprehension task, HL children showed variable performance on the non-canonical OVS but ceiling performance on the SVO conditions, which suggests influence from English. Linguistic factors such as case transparency affected comprehension, whereas child-level factors such as proficiency and degree of (early) use of Greek influenced performance on both modalities.

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Age and input effects in the acquisition of mood in Heritage Portuguese

Cited by 86 publications

References 53 publications

Heritage Portuguese and Heritage Polish in Contact with German: More Evidence on the Production of Objects

Heritage Portuguese and Heritage Polish in Contact with German: More Evidence on the Production of Objects

First Language Attrition as a Function of Age at Onset of Bilingualism: First Language Attainment of Turkish–English Bilinguals in the United Kingdom

Case marking and word order in Greek heritage children

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