28.2075, Books: The strength of a weaker first language: van Rijswijk
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Date: Wed, 03 May 2017 15:50:28
From: Martine Paulissen [gw.uilots.lot at uu.nl]
Subject: The strength of a weaker first language: van Rijswijk
Title: The strength of a weaker first language
Subtitle: Language production and comprehension by Turkish heritage speakers in the
Netherlands
Publication Year: 2016
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT)
http://www.lotpublications.nl/
Book URL: http://www.lotpublications.nl/the-strength-of-a-weaker-first-language-language-production-and-comprehension-by-turkish-heritage-speakers-in-the-netherlands
Author: Remy van Rijswijk
Paperback: ISBN: 9789460932113 Pages: 304 Price: U.K. £ 35.00
Abstract:
When people immigrate to another society, new interactions between languages
arise. The children of immigrants are referred to as heritage speakers: they
are bilinguals who inherited their first language (L1) from their parents.
Yet, the second language (L2) of heritage speakers often becomes their
dominant language, because it is the official language of the society they
live in. Whereas most previous studies in linguistics involved the L1 of
heritage speakers, the present doctoral thesis focused on the L2, by making a
comparison between the Dutch of adult second-generation Turkish heritage
speakers and the Dutch of Dutch L1 speakers. Specifically, the thesis examined
whether a weaker heritage language affects the dominant L2. This central
question was investigated by answering the following sub-questions: Which
characteristics define typical heritage speakers and how can we describe their
L1 and their L2?; How do Turkish heritage speakers (prosodically) mark focus
while speaking in Dutch?; How do Turkish heritage speakers interpret focus
while reading in Dutch?; and: How do Turkish heritage speakers process
Turkish-Dutch cognates with varying word stress positions while listening in
Turkish and Dutch? To answer these questions, various linguistic and
psycholinguistic research techniques were used, such as acoustic analyses of
speech, eye-tracking, reaction time measurements, and EEG. The thesis reports
on a thrilling competition between the strength of the L1 versus the dominance
of the L2, and demonstrates that the way in which Turkish heritage speakers in
the Netherlands speak, read, and listen in their dominant L2 is affected by
the weaker L1. These findings have theoretical consequences for models of
bilingualism as well as more practical implications for the way in which
immigrant children acquire their languages.
Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
Language Acquisition
Subject Language(s): Dutch (nld)
Turkish (tur)
Written In: English (eng)
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