32.3187, Books: Cross-linguistic influence during real-time sentence processing in bilingual children and adults: van Dijk

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Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2021 11:14:36
From: Janacy van Duijn Genet [lot at uva.nl]
Subject: Cross-linguistic influence during real-time sentence processing in bilingual children and adults: van Dijk

 


Title: Cross-linguistic influence during real-time sentence processing
in bilingual children and adults 
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series  

Publication Year: 2021 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT)
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/
	

Book URL: https://www.lotpublications.nl/cross-linguistic-influence-during-real-time-sentence-processing-in-bilingual-children-and-adults 


Author: Chantal van Dijk

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460933837 Pages: 359 Price: Europe EURO 37


Abstract:

There is ample evidence that bilingual children’s morphosyntactic systems can
influence each other. Despite the vast number of studies on such
cross-linguistic influence it is unknown whether the languages of bilingual
children can influence each other during real-time sentence processing
(online). The central aim of this thesis is, therefore, to investigate whether
cross-linguistic influence occurs online in bilingual children using a
self-paced listening and eye-tracking experiment. This thesis also
investigates whether surface overlap and language dominance – factors that
have been argued to predict cross-linguistic influence in children’s speech
production and offline comprehension – are related to cross-linguistic
influence online. Furthermore, this thesis examines how online
cross-linguistic influence develops into adulthood.

The results of this thesis show that the languages of bilingual children and
adults influence each other during real-time sentence processing. The amount
of influence is modified by surface overlap and language dominance. First,
online cross-linguistic influence was found to be more pronounced in
situations in which the word order of children’s languages partially
overlapped rather than completely. Second, the more dominant children were in
the language not in use, the stronger cross-linguistic influence became. Our
results suggest that bilingual children’s languages are both activated during
sentence processing. As a consequence, children have to inhibit the non-target
language. This inhibition is visible in children’s sentence processing speed
and their online sentence interpretation. In order to account for these
findings, we propose a model on cross-linguistic influence in sentence
processing (CLISP).
 



Linguistic Field(s): Morphology
                     Psycholinguistics
                     Syntax


Written In: English  (eng)

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