Language-Specific Factors in First Language Acquisition

Harr, Anne-Katharina

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“…As shown above, various sections of the speakers' narratives are treated differently in these languages. In English, there is little scene setting, a finding which corroborates previous findings for English (Slobin 2004) and other S-languages such as L1 German (Harr 2012). We note here that EngNS do not produce bounded predicates (Accomplishment or Achievement) in the scene setting.…”

Section: Relations Between Time and Space In English And French Discosupporting

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Interrelationships between Time and Space in English and French discourse

Demagny¹

2015

LIA

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This paper explores the expression of temporal boundaries in narrative discourse drawing on cartoon-elicited productions which narrate caused and/or voluntary motion events involving four types of paths. We hypothesise that the way speakers express temporal boundaries depends on the “framing” of their first language (Talmy 2000). We therefore examine productions by speakers of L1 French (V-framed language), L1 English (S-framed) and English learners of L2 French at three levels of proficiency. Productions may include aSetting sectionand aMain event. Findings show that each speaker group has its own mode of expressing temporal and spatial boundaries. The choice in L1 French depends on Path type, but not in L1 English. English learners of L2 French pattern more like L1 French speakers for verbal morphology, but their expression of space is nearly similar to their L1 English. The discussion highlights implications of this linguistic framing type for L2 acquisition.

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Section: Relations Between Time and Space In English And French Discosupporting

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Interrelationships between Time and Space in English and French discourse

Demagny¹

2015

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“…As a result, these multiple markers 8 reinforce Path information and may speed up the acquisition of such markers by German children (cf. similar arguments in Harr, 2012 and Slobin, Bowerman, Brown, Eisenbeiss & Narasimhan, 2011). Dann steigt [P+M] er auf [P] die Palme rauf [P].…”

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“…However, further in-depth research has also brought to light differences within typological groups: Harr (2012) indicates that the lexicalization of motion information in German is more typical of S-languages than in English: German speakers are more systematic in how they distribute information (M in the verb, P in other devices), and their utterances encode more information than those of their English counterparts.…”

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“…Many studies have focused on the development of motion expression in children (Allen et al, 2007; Bowerman, 1996; Bowerman & Choi, 2001; Choi, 2011; Bunger, Trueswell & Papafragou, 2012; Choi & Bowerman, 1991; Harr, 2012; Hickmann & Hendriks, 2010; Hickmann, Hendriks & Champaud, 2009a; Hickmann et al, 2009b; Ji, Hendriks & Hickmann, 2011; Maguire, Hirsch-Pasek, Golinkoff, Imai, Haryu, Vanegas, Okada, Pulverman & Sanchez-Davis, 2010; Naigles, Eisenberg, Kako, Highter & McGraw, 1998; Özçalişkan & Slobin, 1999; Papafragou, Massey & Gleitman, 2002; Slobin, 1996, 2004). They have shown two main results.…”

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Running or crossing? Children's expression of voluntary motion in English, German, and French

Hendriks

Hickmann²,

Pastorino-Campos

2021

J. Child Lang.

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Much research has focused on the expression of voluntary motion (Slobin, 2004; Talmy, 2000). The present study contributes to this body of research by comparing how children (three to ten years) and adults narrated short, animated cartoons in English and German (satellite-framed languages) vs. French (verb-framed). The cartoons showed agents displacing themselves in variable Manners along different Paths (Path saliency and variance were specifically manipulated in four item types). Results show an increase with age across languages in how much information participants expressed. However, at all ages, more motion information was encoded in English and German than in French. Furthermore, language-specific features impacted the content and its organization within utterances in discourse, showing more variation within and across Path types in French than in the satellite-framed languages, resulting in later achievement of adult-like descriptions in this language. The discussion highlights the joint impact of cognitive and typological features on language development.

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“…(21)) (cf. also Berthele, 2004Berthele, , 2006Goschler & Stefanowitsch, 2010;Arias Oliveira, 2012;Harr, 2012 (G1) they fled the slopes thither.down 'They fled down the slopes. ' 6.…”

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Thinking for translating and intra-typological variation in satellite-framed languages

Lewandowski

Mateu

2016

RCL

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We analyze the expression of motion in translations of Tolkien's The Hobbit into Polish and German within the framework of Talmy's (1991Talmy's ( , 2000 typology of macro-events and Slobin's (1991Slobin's ( , 1996 "Thinking for speaking" hypothesis. We show that although both languages pertain to the satellite-framed typological group, Polish provides less diversified Manner and Path descriptions than German, which exploits the satellite-framed lexicalization pattern by far more productively. We relate these contrasts in the rhetorical style to the particular morpho-syntactic and semantic characteristics of the languages under discussion.

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Language-Specific Factors in First Language Acquisition

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Interrelationships between Time and Space in English and French discourse

Interrelationships between Time and Space in English and French discourse

Running or crossing? Children's expression of voluntary motion in English, German, and French

Thinking for translating and intra-typological variation in satellite-framed languages

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