35.1035, Books: Spreading the Word: Koutamanis (2024)

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Subject: 35.1035, Books: Spreading the Word: Koutamanis (2024)

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Date: 25-Mar-2024
From: Tessa Arneri [lot at uva.nl]
Subject: Spreading the Word: Koutamanis (2024)


Title: Spreading the Word
Subtitle: Cross-Linguistic Influence in the Bilingual Child’s Lexicon
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/LOT0665

Author: Elly Koutamanis
Paperback: ISBN: 978-94-6093-450-6 Pages: 249 Price: Europe EURO 37
Abstract:

When bilingual children use one language, they may be influenced by
their knowledge of their other language. While such cross-linguistic
influence is known to occur in children at the morpho-syntactic level,
lexical effects have mostly been studied in bilingual adults. It is
unclear to what extent bilingual children’s two languages also
influence each other at the lexical level. This thesis therefore aims
to uncover the internal structure of the bilingual child’s lexicon and
the processes that may lead to lexical cross-linguistic influence. In
doing so, it also examines the role of various individual-level, task-
and context-level, and language-level factors in the way lexical
cross-linguistic influence may emerge.

Based on a series of experiments involving a variety of word
comprehension and production tasks, this thesis concludes that, like
bilingual adults, bilingual children have an integrated lexicon which
is accessed in a language-nonselective manner. This means that words
from both languages are represented in one shared system and that
these representations can become (co-)activated irrespective of the
language they belong to, depending on word form and meaning
properties. For example, translation equivalents can become
co-activated through shared meaning representations, resulting in
lexical priming effects or, if they also overlap in form, cognate
facilitation effects. The degree of co-activation also depends on
children’s language dominance, with dominant-language words typically
being more readily activated. Furthermore, the strength and manner in
which effects of lexical cross-linguistic influence manifest were
found to be modulated by a complex interplay between language
dominance, task demands, language context, and language distance.

Linguistic Field(s): Psycholinguistics

Written In: English (eng)



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