Linguistic and Cultural Exchange and Appropriation: A Survey Study in a Multi-ethnic Neighbourhood in The Netherlands

Jongenburger, Willy; Aarssen, J.

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“…The command of Dutch by the first-generation Surinamese immigrants is standard-like due to the long period of contact with Dutch since colonial times. Furthermore, Surinamese households in which Sranan is spoken are generally oriented towards Dutch and none of the Surinamese participants claim to speak Sranan better than Dutch (Jongenburger and Aarssen, 2001). It is also reported elsewhere (Appel and Schoonen, 2005) that children in Surinamese families often acquire Dutch as their first language.…”

Section: Bilingual Children Growing Up In Bilingual Communities Of Thmentioning

confidence: 96%

“…5 In Hulk and Cornips (2006a;2006b) a slightly different perspective is chosen. There, we provided substantial evidence for the claim that, nowadays, in Moroccan and Turkish families Dutch is always spoken at home (see Jongenburger and Aarssen, 2001). For these families, the heritage language is used more with mothers than with fathers, and Dutch is used more between siblings (for a more elaborate discussion of the languages used by these children in different contexts, see Cornips and Hulk, 2006a).…”

Section: Bilingual Children Growing Up In Bilingual Communities Of Thmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Factors of success and failure in the acquisition of grammatical gender in Dutch

Cornips

Hulk

2008

Second Language Research

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The goal of this article is to examine the factors that are proposed in the literature to explain the success-failure in the child L2 (second language) acquisition of grammatical gender in Dutch definite determiners. Focusing on four different groups of bilingual children, we discuss four external success factors put forward in the literature: (1) early age of onset, (2) lengthy and intensive input, (3) the quality of the input and (4) the role of the other language. We argue that the first two factors may indeed contribute to explaining the differences in success between the less and more successful bilingual children. However, the influence of the quality of the input in (standard) Dutch appears to be inconclusive, whereas the (structural) similarity of the gender systems in the two languages may reinforce the children's awareness of the grammatical gender category. Moreover, it appears that individual bilingualism vs. societal bilingualism, that is the sociolinguistic context in which Dutch is acquired, is not a factor for failure or success with respect to the acquisition of grammatical gender. In the final part of this article, we hypothesize that the important role of the input is related to a language internal factor, which distinguishes the Dutch gender system of the definite determiner from that of other languages, resulting in different acquisition paths.

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Section: Bilingual Children Growing Up In Bilingual Communities Of Thmentioning

confidence: 96%

Section: Bilingual Children Growing Up In Bilingual Communities Of Thmentioning

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Factors of success and failure in the acquisition of grammatical gender in Dutch

Cornips

Hulk

2008

Second Language Research

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“…Questionnaires (Extra, Aarts, Van der Avoird, Broeder and Yagmur, 2001;Extra, Mol and De Ruiter, 2001;Jongenburger and Aarssen, 2001) and interviews (El Aissati, 1997Boumans, 2002b) provide a general image of the language use of second-generation Moroccans in the Netherlands. Either Morrocan Arabic or Berber is the dominant language inside the home, in communication with the parents and with older siblings who grew up in Morocco.…”

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The attributive possessive in Moroccan Arabic spoken by young bilinguals in the Netherlands and their peers in Morocco

Boumans

2006

Bilingualism

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“…The majority of these laborers originated from the countryside where the educational facilities were very poor. Over 90% of the Moroccan and about 55% of the Turkish inhabitants in The Netherlands between 50 and 64 years old did not finish primary education (Jongenburger & Aarssen, 2001). According to Dabène and Moore (1995, p. 21), the early migrants encouraged family and village members to travel to the host county and join them in work.…”

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Loosing grammatical gender in Dutch: The result of bilingual acquisition and/or an act of identity?

Cornips

2008

International Journal of Bilingualism

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Academy of Sciences AcknowledgmentI would like to thank two anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments. AbstractIn the Dutch sociolinguistic literature it is often noted that the overgeneralization of common gender, that is, the use of the definite article de where het is required, characterizes the Dutch variety(ies) of immigrants. Recent sociolinguistic research shows that this overgeneralization also occurs in the speech of subsequent generations born in the Netherlands who acquire Dutch as one of their first languages. The aim of this paper is to discuss whether the overuse of de can exclusively be ascribed to the effects of bilingual (2L1 / child L2) acquisition. It is argued that although the overgeneralization of de constitutes a linguistic resource for every bilingual child acquirer (and even for monolingual acquirers), it only becomes meaningful in the indexing and reproducing of an (immigrant) "allochtone" identity versus the dominant (indigenous) "autochtone" one. It is used according to a set of language use norms defined by generations of that social group of speakers.

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Linguistic and Cultural Exchange and Appropriation: A Survey Study in a Multi-ethnic Neighbourhood in The Netherlands

Cited by 9 publications

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Factors of success and failure in the acquisition of grammatical gender in Dutch

Factors of success and failure in the acquisition of grammatical gender in Dutch

The attributive possessive in Moroccan Arabic spoken by young bilinguals in the Netherlands and their peers in Morocco

Loosing grammatical gender in Dutch: The result of bilingual acquisition and/or an act of identity?

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