32.1831, Diss: Language Acquisition: Author: Christina Domene Moreno: ''Diss Title: Beyond transfer? The acquisition of an L3 phonology by Turkish-German bilinguals''

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Date: Wed, 26 May 2021 13:31:19
From: Christina Domene Moreno [christina.domene-moreno at uni-wuerzburg.de]
Subject: Diss Title: Beyond transfer? The acquisition of an L3 phonology by Turkish-German bilinguals

 
Institution: Julius-Maximilians-Universitaet Wuerzburg 
Program: English Linguistics 
Dissertation Status: Completed 
Degree Date: 2020 

Author: Christina Domene Moreno

Dissertation Title: Beyond transfer? The acquisition of an L3 phonology by
Turkish-German bilinguals 

Dissertation URL:  https://tinyurl.com/49fzdmkf

Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition


Dissertation Director(s):
Kabak Barış
Kupisch Tanja

Dissertation Abstract:

Within the relatively new area of research on Third Language (L3) Acquisition,
the subfield of phonology is growing, but still relatively understudied.
Testing the current L3 models adopted from research on L3 syntax (see Rothman
2010, Bardel & Falk 2012, Flynn et al. 2004), the studies conducted in the
area have mostly focused on the source and directionality of language transfer
– both into the L3 and into the respective background languages – with some
recent excursions into the role of extra-linguistic factors for multilingual
learners (e.g., Wrembel 2015). The findings so far (mostly on production, with
perception lagging behind) have been very diverse and, depending on the
concrete study, can often be taken to give evidence for any of the prevalent
models. This can be attributed to the wide range of different speaker and
learner biographies as well as their language combinations and state of
acquisition, but crucially the dilemma seems to be inherent in the
(phonological) system in and of itself since viewing phonological
interlanguage transfer as a one-dimensional and immediately transparent
process based on direct correspondences between language systems does not seem
to capture the complex nature of the phenomenon.

In this doctoral thesis I investigate the acquisition of an additional
phonological system by child and adult German heritage speakers of Turkish.
Specifically, I aim to explore how the learners deal with diverse phonological
contrasts that promote positive contra negative transfer from their HL
(Turkish) and their L2 (German), and how their perception and production is
modulated by cognitive and affective variables. Moreover, I test contrasts
that can be found neither in the HL nor in the L2 phonological system to tease
apart transfer phenomena from effects caused elsewhere in the bilingual mind
when dealing with a new system.

The studies shed light both on the question of how a new language is shaped
and affected by different existing systems and on how two or more phonological
grammars co-exist and/or interact in a speaker’s mind. I argue that, rather
than being regarded as simple full projection of language-specific property
sets onto the target language, phonological transfer in multilinguals needs to
be considered as a process of complex interactions and layers that are
established on the level of individual phonological properties and abstract
(typological) associations.




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