The acquisition of subjects in bilingual children

Hinzelin, Marc‐Olivier

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“…This result does not support the cross-linguistic hypothesis of Müller and Hulk, which would favor the incorrect use of overt subject instead of null subject in the pro-drop language (Turkish) by the influence of the non-pro-drop language being simultaneously acquired. The result is compatible with the studies of Zwanziger et al (2005) and Hinzelin (2003). This lack of quantitative difference can be accounted for by the hypothesis of Sorrace (2005), who claimed that quantitative differences in the data collected may stem from few opportunities to interpret and produce correct subject realizations.…”

Section: Conclusion and Discussionsupporting

confidence: 78%

“…Hence, one of the reasons why this study did not favor Hulk and Müller's hypothesis may be the age of the bilingual participant of the present study. She was 5 years old, but the crosslinguistic influence of a non-pro-drop language on pro-drop languages in previous studies turned out to be found with participants aged 2;10, 3;09, 3;04 by Hinzelin (2003), Zwanziger et. al.…”

Section: Age Factormentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Zwanziger et al (2005) investigated Inuktitut and English, the former being a pro-drop language while the latter nonpro-drop in terms of subject omission in six English-Inuktitut simultaneous bilingual children, aged 1;8-3;9 and concluded that there is no evidence for cross-linguistic influence from English to Inuktitut or Inuktitut to English in terms of subject use, though the two languages have different characteristics in the pro-drop parameter. Similarly, Hinzelin (2003) investigated the question of whether Portuguese-German bilingual children differentiate the grammars of their languages depending on the Autonomous Development Hypothesis (Meisel, 2001). Hinzelin concluded that bilingual children can keep grammatical systems separate and exhibit no difficulties in setting the null subject parameter (i.e.…”

Section: L2 Acquisition Of Subject Pronounsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Türkçe-İngilizce İki Dilli (Türkçe-İngilizce) Çocuklarda Adıl Düşümünün Edinimi

Dikilitaş¹

2016

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ABSTRACT:This study investigates the use of null and overt subjects by a Turkish-English bilingual child and a Turkish monolingual child, aged 5;00 and 4;11, respectively, in order to reveal whether there is cross-linguistic influence from English to Turkish based on the hypothesis of Hulk and Müller (2000). Some previous research has shown that the morphosyntactic features of one language can influence the development of another, while others have found no evidence for cross-linguistic influence of one language on another. In this study, a Turkish and English language pair with quite different morphosyntactic structures was investigated, revealing monolingual-like use of null and overt subjects by the bilingual child. Research provides no evidence of cross-linguistic influence from English to Turkish. Keywords: Pro drop, Turkish-English bilingual child, Turkish language acquisition, cross-linguistic influence, bilingualism ÖZ: Bu çalışma Türkçe-İngilizce 5 yaşındaki iki dilli ve 4 yıl 11 ay yaşındaki tek dilli bir çocuğun adıllı ve adılsız cümleleri nasıl kullandıklarını araştırmaktadır. Amaç Hulk and Müller (2000) hipotezine göre İngilizceden Türkçeye doğru diller arası bir etkilenme olup olmadığını ortaya çıkarmaktır. Bazı araştırmalar bir dilin morfo sentaks özelliklerinin başka bir dilin gelişimini etkilediğini gösterirken, diğerleri ise böyle bir etkilenmenin olduğunu ortaya koyamamaktadır. Bu çalışmada farklı morfo sentaks özelliklere sahip olan Türkçe ve İngilizce gibi iki dile sahip bir çocuk araştırılmış ve bu çocuğun adıl düşümü kullanımı açısından benzer yaştaki tek dilli Türk bir çocuktan farklı olmadığını ortaya koymuştur. Araştırma İngilizceden Türkçeye doğru herhangi bir diller arası etkilenme olduğuna dair bir kanıt ortaya koyamamıştır. Anahtar sözcükler: Adıl düşümü, Türkçe-İngilizce iki dilli çocuk, Türkçe dil edinimi, diller arası etkileşim, iki dillilik.

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Section: Conclusion and Discussionsupporting

confidence: 78%

Section: Age Factormentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: L2 Acquisition Of Subject Pronounsmentioning

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Türkçe-İngilizce İki Dilli (Türkçe-İngilizce) Çocuklarda Adıl Düşümünün Edinimi

Dikilitaş¹

2016

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“…4 Marta's data show an initially high production of null subjects 3. Contrary to these studies, Hinzelin (2003), Juan-Garau & Pérez-Vidal (2000) and Liceras et al (2012aLiceras et al ( , 2012b report that young bilinguals do not seem to necessarily exhibit difficulty in "setting the null subject parameter to its respective value in each of their two languages" (Hinzelin 2003: 19).…”

Section: Early Acquisition Of Null and Overt Subjectsmentioning

confidence: 94%

Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 11

Perpiñán¹,

Heap²,

Moreno-Villamar³

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Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory

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The second article in this section "Towards a Unified Treatment of Spanish Copulas", by Arche, Fábregas, and Marín adds to the ongoing debate of the distribution of the Spanish copulas ser and estar by accounting for their alternation in adjectival and passive clauses in a unified way. They propose that the properties of passive clauses are due to the properties of the copulas and not the participles, and further argue that only estar has an additional component of central coincidence with a stative nature. Charnavel analyzes French scalar particles même, quand même, ne serait-ce que, and seulement and compares them to English particles even and only. Her article, "How French Sheds New Light on Scalar Particles" proposes a new theory based on specific characteristics such as scalarity, additivity, and exclusivity and provides new empirical evidence about these French particles, which, despite widespread assumptions, behave differently from their English counterparts. The last article of the Syntax-Semantics section is by Donazzan and Tovena and investigates the semantics of semelfactive predicates in Italian. In "Pluralities of Events: Semelfactives and a Case of 'Single Event' Nominalisation", the authors analyze the notion of plurality and unity of events by looking at the two possible readings that ata-nominalisations, i.e.: nuotata, ombrellata, receive in instrument semelfactive verbs. They conclude that semelfactives, in their processive readings, have to considered activity predicates. The second section of the volume includes articles on Morphosyntax, beginning with "Laísmo and 'le-for-les': To Agree or not to Agree?", by Adolfo Ausín and Francisco J. Fernández-Rubiera, a novel exploration of an old problem in nonstandard Spanish pronominal paradigms. They propose a unified account for three apparently unrelated phenomena: the presence of the accusative clitic, the presence/ absence of number agreement in the dative clitic ('le-for-les'), and the presence/absence of gender agreement in the dative clitic in laísta dialects ('le-for-la'). They propose that agreement in these two nonstandard dative clitic constructions is related

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Morphological Development in the Speech of a Persian–English Bilingual Child

Keshavarz¹

2007

J Psycholinguist Res

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The present study aims at testing the two dominant hypotheses regarding the development of inflections and other functional categories namely the Structure-Building Model and the Continuity Hypothesis within the generative theory. According to the first view, functional categories are entirely absent in children's early grammars, which contain only projections of lexical categories, most importantly 'nouns' and 'verbs.' This hypothesis holds that utterances produced by children are actually small clauses or verb phrases, and functional categories such as copula, determiners, and genitive are not acquired during the single-word or early multiword stages, but are implemented in the course of further acquisition, at around age 2 or later. The proponents of the second, i.e., the 'Continuity Hypothesis,' on the other hand, argue that functional categories are in fact present in children's early syntax. These two hypotheses will be tested here against empirical data in English and Persian. Thus, longitudinal data will be provided on the acquisition of a few morphemes in the two languages acquired by the subject of the present study (i.e., English and Persian) including determiners, plural marker, genitive, and copula. The significance of the present study lies in the fact that it provides data on two typologically different languages in bilingual first language acquisition and thereby making a contribution to the field.

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The acquisition of subjects in bilingual children

Cited by 7 publications

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Türkçe-İngilizce İki Dilli (Türkçe-İngilizce) Çocuklarda Adıl Düşümünün Edinimi

Türkçe-İngilizce İki Dilli (Türkçe-İngilizce) Çocuklarda Adıl Düşümünün Edinimi

Romance Languages and Linguistic Theory 11

Morphological Development in the Speech of a Persian–English Bilingual Child

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