31.2202, Books: Encoding Motion Events: Woerfel

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Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2020 17:05:22
From: Asja Kusnezowa [Asja.Kusnezowa at degruyter.com]
Subject: Encoding Motion Events: Woerfel

 


Title: Encoding Motion Events 
Subtitle: The Impact of Language-Specific Patterns and Language Dominance in
Bilingual Children 
Series Title: Studies on Language Acquisition [SOLA], 53  

Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
	   http://www.degruyter.com/mouton
	

Book URL: https://bit.ly/2NnVxq9 


Author: Till J. Nesta Woerfel

Paperback: ISBN:  9781501521416 Pages: 379 Price: U.S. $ 28.99


Abstract:

Editor's Note: This is a new edition of a previously announced title.

Now in paperback.

Children who grow up as second- or third-generation immigrants typically
acquire and speak the minority language at home and the majority language at
school. Recurrently, these children have been the subject of controversial
debates about their linguistic abilities in relation to their educational
success. However, such debates fail to recognise that variation in bilinguals’
language processing is a phenomenon in its own right that results from the
dynamic influence of one language on another. This volume provides insight
into cross-linguistic influence in Turkish-German and Turkish-French bilingual
children and uncovers the nature of variation in L1 and L2 oral motion event
descriptions by evaluating the impact of language-specific patterns and
language dominance.

The results indicate that next to typological differences between the
speakers’ L1 and L2, language dominance has an impact on the type and
direction of influence. However, the author argues that most variation can be
explained by L1/L2 usage preferences. Bilinguals make frequent use of patterns
that exist in both languages, but are unequally preferred by monolingual
speakers. This finding underlines the importance of usage-based approaches in
SLA.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Cognitive Science


Written In: English  (eng)

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