Crosslinguistic Transfer in the Acquisition of Compound Words in Persian-English Bilinguals

Autor/inn/en	Foroodi-Nejad, Farzaneh; Paradis, Johanne
Titel	Crosslinguistic Transfer in the Acquisition of Compound Words in Persian-English Bilinguals
Quelle	In: Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 12 (2009) 4, S.411-427 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1366-7289
DOI	10.1017/S1366728909990241
Schlagwörter	Language Dominance; Indo European Languages; Language Acquisition; Bilingualism; Transfer of Training; English; Task Analysis; Vocabulary + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sprachliche Dominanz; Indoeuropäisch; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Bilingualismus; Training; Transfer; Ausbildung; English language; Englisch; Aufgabenanalyse; Wortschatz
Abstract	Crosslinguistic transfer in bilingual language acquisition has been widely reported in various linguistic domains (e.g., Dopke, 1998; Nicoladis, 1999; Paradis, 2001). In this study we examined structural overlap (Dopke, 2000; Muller and Hulk, 2001) and dominance (Yip and Matthews, 2000) as explanatory factors for crosslinguistic transfer in Persian-English bilingual children's production of novel compound words. Nineteen Persian monolinguals, sixteen Persian-English bilinguals, and seventeen English monolinguals participated in a novel compound production task. Our results showed crosslinguistic influence of Persian on English and of English on Persian. Bilingual children produced more right-headed compounds in Persian, compared with Persian monolinguals, and in their English task, they produced more left-headed compounds than English monolinguals. Furthermore, Persian-dominant bilinguals tended more towards left-headed compounds in Persian than the English-dominant group. These findings point to both structural overlap and language dominance as factors underlying crosslinguistic transfer. (As Provided).
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