Code-Switching within Determiner Phrases in Bilingual Children.

Eichler, Nadine; Hager, Malin; Müller, Natascha

doi:10.25162/zfsl-2012-0007

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“…Alternatively, or perhaps working in tandem, the fact that HSs might rely more on morphological defaults generally could be significant here. In the present case, a heightened reliance of defaults-a tendency that has been reported also for monolingual (i.e., Pérez-Pereira, 1991) and bilingual (i.e., Eichler et al, 2012) children as well as for L2 learners (i.e., Franceschina, 2001;McCarthy, 2008)-might make feature clash errors even more disruptive for HS processing than for homeland speakers. Coupling a potential HS heightened sensitivity to defaults with the slower overall reading times of HSs and lack of ceiling effects with ungrammatical agreement could have all combined to give rise to the differences we noted in the groups.…”

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Effects of markedness in gender processing in Italian as a heritage language: A speed accuracy tradeoff

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Kubota²,

Rothman³

et al. 2022

Front. Psychol.

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This study examined potential sources of grammatical gender variability in heritage speakers (HSs) of Italian with a focus on morphological markedness. Fifty-four adult Italian HSs living in Germany and 40 homeland Italian speakers completed an online Self-Paced Reading Task and an offline Grammaticality Judgment Task. Both tasks involved sentences with grammatical and ungrammatical noun-adjective agreement, manipulating markedness. In grammatical sentences, both groups showed a markedness effect: shorter reading times (RTs) and higher accuracy for sentences containing masculine nouns as compared to sentences with feminine nouns. In ungrammatical sentences, although both groups were sensitive to ungrammaticality, only HSs showed a markedness effect, that is, they had significantly longer RTs and higher accuracy when violations were realized on feminine adjectives. Proficiency in the HL was a significant predictor of accuracy and RTs at the individual level. Taken together, results indicate that HSs acquire and process gender in a qualitatively similar way to homeland native speakers. However, RT evidence seems to suggest that at least under particular experimental methods, markedness considerations are more prevalent for HSs resulting in a speed-accuracy tradeoff.

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Effects of markedness in gender processing in Italian as a heritage language: A speed accuracy tradeoff

Pisa

Kubota²,

Rothman³

et al. 2022

Front. Psychol.

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“…Alternatively, or perhaps working in tandem, the fact that HSs might rely more on morphological defaults generally could be significant here. In the present case, a heightened reliance of defaults-a tendency that has been reported also for monolingual (i.e., and bilingual (i.e., Eichler et al, 2012) children as well as for L2 learners (i.e., Franceschina, 2001;McCarthy, 2008)-might make feature clash errors even more disruptive for HS processing than for homeland speakers. Coupling a potential HS heightened sensitivity to defaults with the slower overall reading times of HSs and lack of ceiling effects with ungrammatical agreement could have all combined to give rise to the differences we noted in the groups.…”

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confidence: 73%

The Next Phase in Heritage Language Studies: Methodological Considerations and Advancements

2024

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Frontiers is more than just an open access publisher of scholarly articles: it is a pioneering approach to the world of academia, radically improving the way scholarly research is managed. The grand vision of Frontiers is a world where all people have an equal opportunity to seek, share and generate knowledge. Frontiers provides immediate and permanent online open access to all its publications, but this alone is not enough to realize our grand goals. Frontiers journal seriesThe Frontiers journal series is a multi-tier and interdisciplinary set of openaccess, online journals, promising a paradigm shift from the current review, selection and dissemination processes in academic publishing. All Frontiers journals are driven by researchers for researchers; therefore, they constitute a service to the scholarly community. At the same time, the Frontiers journal series operates on a revolutionary invention, the tiered publishing system, initially addressing specific communities of scholars, and gradually climbing up to broader public understanding, thus serving the interests of the lay society, too. Dedication to qualityEach Frontiers article is a landmark of the highest quality, thanks to genuinely collaborative interactions between authors and review editors, who include some of the world's best academicians. Research must be certified by peers before entering a stream of knowledge that may eventually reach the public -and shape society; therefore, Frontiers only applies the most rigorous and unbiased reviews. Frontiers revolutionizes research publishing by freely delivering the most outstanding research, evaluated with no bias from both the academic and social point of view. By applying the most advanced information technologies, Frontiers is catapulting scholarly publishing into a new generation. What are Frontiers Research Topics?Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers journals series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject. With their unique mix of varied contributions from Original Research to Review Articles, Frontiers Research Topics unify the most influential researchers, the latest key findings and historical advances in a hot research area.

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“…Considerable evidence from 2L1 children's code-switches between the article and the noun shows that pre-school-age children draw connections between masculine and feminine across Romance and Germanic languages. Findings such as those in Cantone and Müller (2008) and Eichler, Hager and Müller (2012) illustrate that in spontaneous speech, 2L1 Spanish-German, Italian-German, and French-German children have a general tendency to produce code-switched NPs in which there is cross-linguistic gender agreement between the article and the noun (e.g., una SP-fem Schlange GER-fem "a snake").…”

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Interactions between lexical and syntactic L1-L2 overlap: Effects of gender congruency on L2 sentence processing in L1 Spanish-L2 German speakers

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Kolb²,

Hopp³

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Applied Psycholinguistics

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Bringing together lines of research from sentence processing and lexical access, this empirical study investigates the interplay between lexical (grammatical gender) and syntactic (word order) cross-linguistic overlap in L2 German. Eighty-six L1 Spanish-L2 German and thirty-six monolingual German adults completed a German self-paced reading task with noun phrases (NPs) manipulated by L1-L2 gender congruency (congruent, incongruent, neuter) and L1-L2 adjective-noun word order (pre- vs. postnominal adjectives). The study examines the effects of gender congruency, the type of L1-L2 gender mapping (i.e., presence vs. absence of each class in L1 and L2), and L2 proficiency level. Results show that the detection of ungrammatical word order in L2 German interacts with gender congruency, in that L2 speakers are only sensitive to word order violations for sentences with gender-congruent nouns. The detection of ungrammaticality for sentences containing gender-incongruent nouns only emerges at higher L2 proficiency levels. These findings underscore the role of cross-linguistic lexical overlap in syntactic processing.

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Code-Switching within Determiner Phrases in Bilingual Children.

Cited by 13 publications

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Effects of markedness in gender processing in Italian as a heritage language: A speed accuracy tradeoff

Effects of markedness in gender processing in Italian as a heritage language: A speed accuracy tradeoff

The Next Phase in Heritage Language Studies: Methodological Considerations and Advancements

Interactions between lexical and syntactic L1-L2 overlap: Effects of gender congruency on L2 sentence processing in L1 Spanish-L2 German speakers

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