Cross-Linguistic Transfer in Adjective-Noun Strings by Preschool Bilingual Children

Autor/in	Nicoladis, Elena
Titel	Cross-Linguistic Transfer in Adjective-Noun Strings by Preschool Bilingual Children
Quelle	In: Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 9 (2006) 1, S.15-32 (18 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1366-7289
DOI	10.1017/S136672890500235X
Schlagwörter	Speech; Nouns; Transfer of Training; Figurative Language; French; Bilingualism; English; Preschool Children; Task Analysis; Pictorial Stimuli; Form Classes (Languages) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Speaking; Sprechen; Training; Transfer; Ausbildung; Französisch; Bilingualismus; English language; Englisch; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Aufgabenanalyse; Fantasieanregung; Analytischer Sprachbau
Abstract	One hypothesis holds that bilingual children's cross-linguistic transfer occurs in spontaneous production when there is structural overlap between the two languages and ambiguity in at least one language (Dopke, 1998; Hulk and Muller, 2000). This study tested whether overlap/ambiguity of adjective-noun strings in English and French predicted transfer. In English, there is only one order (adjective-noun) while in French both adjective-noun and noun-adjective order are allowed, with the latter as the default. Unidirectional transfer from English to French was predicted. 35 French-English preschool bilingual children (and 35 age-matched English monolinguals and 10 French monolinguals) were asked to name pictures by using an adjective-noun string. In addition to the reversing adjective-noun strings in French as predicted by the overlap/ambiguity hypothesis, the bilingual children reversed more adjective-noun strings in English than monolinguals. It is proposed that cross-linguistic transfer might better be understood as an epiphenomenon of speech production. (Author).
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