29.99, Books: The Development of Prosodic Focus-marking in Early Bilinguals’ L2: A Study of Bai-Mandarin Early Bilinguals’ Mandarin: Liu

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Date: Fri, 05 Jan 2018 11:26:53
From: Jolanda Rozendaal [gw.uilots.lot at uu.nl]
Subject: The Development of Prosodic Focus-marking in Early Bilinguals’ L2: A Study of Bai-Mandarin Early Bilinguals’ Mandarin: Liu

Title: The Development of Prosodic Focus-marking in Early Bilinguals’
L2: A Study of Bai-Mandarin Early Bilinguals’ Mandarin 
Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series  

Publication Year: 2017 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT)
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/

Book URL: https://www.lotpublications.nl/the-development-of-prosodic-focus-marking-in-early-bilinguals-l2-a-study-of-bai-mandarin-early-bilinguals-mandarin-2 

Author: Zenghui Liu

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460932656 Pages:  Price: ----  

Abstract:

This dissertation investigates the development of prosodic focus-marking in
early bilinguals’ L2 by examining Bai (L1)-Mandarin (L2) early bilingual’s
Mandarin. By investigating Bai-Mandarin early bilingual children aged from six
to thirteen and bilingual adults, we have established the developmental
trajectory and ultimate attainment of prosodic focus-marking in Bai-Mandarin
early bilinguals’ Mandarin. We have found both similarities and differences in
the route and rate of acquisition of prosodic focus-marking between early
bilingual children’s L2 and monolingual children’s L1. Regarding the
developmental route, early bilinguals can use duration earlier than pitch for
focus-marking purposes, similar to the monolinguals, but their use of prosody
to distinguish narrow focus from non-focus is not earlier than distinguishing
focus types, different form the monolinguals. Regarding the developmental
rate, early bilinguals have not developed similar competence after five years
of formal Mandarin education to that of the monolingual four- to
five-year-olds. Our results thus provide first evidence that early bilingual
children’s L2 acquisition does not completely resemble monolingual children’s
L1 acquisition in prosody, similar to findings on phonological acquisition but
different from findings on lexical and syntactic acquisition. Furthermore, we
have found that Bai-Mandarin early bilingual adults are highly proficient in
using duration and pitch-related prosodic cues for encoding focus in Mandarin,
but they are not fully Standard Mandarin-like. Our results show that L1
influence (i.e., positive and negative transfer) is evident in the bilinguals’
L2 development, which has been widely observed in bilingual language
acquisition in different linguistic domains. Importantly, non-Standard L2
input might also influence the route and rate of acquisition in early
bilinguals’ L2 development.

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Language Acquisition
                     Phonetics
                     Phonology

Subject Language(s): Chinese, Mandarin (cmn)

Written In: English  (eng)

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