35.920, Books: A Usage-Based Account to Language Transfer: Barking (2024)

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Date: 05-Mar-2024
From: Tessa Arneri [lotdissertations-fgw at uva.nl]
Subject: A Usage-Based Account to Language Transfer: Barking (2024)


Title: A Usage-Based Account to Language Transfer
Subtitle: A Case of German Speakers in The Netherlands
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series
Publication Year: 2024
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke
(LOT)
                http://www.lotpublications.nl/
Book URL: https://dx.medra.org/10.48273/LOT0663

Author: Marie Barking
Abstract:

This dissertation explores language transfer by native German speakers
living in the Netherlands, who often experience extensive transfer
from their second language Dutch to their native language German. For
example, they might start to use loan translations like *Hintername
(‘behind name’ instead of Nachname ‘after name’ based on Dutch
achternaam) or *Fliegfeld (‘flyfield’ instead of Flughafen ‘flyport’
based on Dutch vliegveld). They might also apply Dutch grammar
patterns to their German, resulting in innovative uses of grammatical
elements or in word order patterns in German.

To investigate this language transfer, this dissertation employs a
multi-method approach, combining experimental, survey, corpus, and
focusgroup data. The results demonstrate that speakers’ language use
is affected by an interplay between automaticity and agency. On the
one hand, speakers’ language use is largely driven by several
cognitive, automatic mechanisms, such as entrenchment, categorization,
and generalization. On the other hand, speakers can show agency and
can try to alter what is automatically activated for them, for
instance by keeping lists of transfer examples or by speaking more
slowly to reflect on their language use.

Taken together, the results of this dissertation advance the
development of a usage-based framework in linguistic research: they
illustrate how such a framework can fruitfully be applied to explain
speakers’ language use in a language contact setting, they underline
the importance of individual variation, and they demonstrate the need
to account for both the cognitive and social factors that together
drive our language use.

Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition

Subject Language(s): Dutch (nld)
                     German (deu)

Written In: English (eng)



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