Encoding Motion Events : The Impact of Language-Specific Patterns and Language Dominance in Bilingual Children /
Woerfel, Till
Encoding Motion Events : The Impact of Language-Specific Patterns and Language Dominance in Bilingual Children / Till Woerfel. - 1 online resource (XX, 379 p.) - Studies on Language Acquisition [SOLA] , 58 1861-4248 ; .
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Multicompetence in child bilingualism -- 3. Motion events in language and cognition -- 4. Motion events in first and bilingual language acquisition -- 5. Implications and general assumptions -- 6. Methodology -- 7. Study on language dominance patterns and motion encoding by Turkish-German and Turkish-French bilinguals -- 8. General discussion and future directions -- Appendix -- References -- Index
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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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781501516498 9781501507915 9781501507977
10.1515/9781501507977 doi
2019003090
Bilingualism in children--France--Case studies.
Bilingualism in children--Germany--Case studies.
Bilingualism in children.
French language--Study and teaching--Turkish speakers.
German language--Study and teaching--Turkish speakers.
Motion in language.
Second language acquisition.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINESÂ / Linguistics / General.
Bilingualism. Crosslinguistic Influence. Language Dominance. Motion Events.
P115.2 P115.2
404/.2083
Encoding Motion Events : The Impact of Language-Specific Patterns and Language Dominance in Bilingual Children / Till Woerfel. - 1 online resource (XX, 379 p.) - Studies on Language Acquisition [SOLA] , 58 1861-4248 ; .
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Multicompetence in child bilingualism -- 3. Motion events in language and cognition -- 4. Motion events in first and bilingual language acquisition -- 5. Implications and general assumptions -- 6. Methodology -- 7. Study on language dominance patterns and motion encoding by Turkish-German and Turkish-French bilinguals -- 8. General discussion and future directions -- Appendix -- References -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9781501516498 9781501507915 9781501507977
10.1515/9781501507977 doi
2019003090
Bilingualism in children--France--Case studies.
Bilingualism in children--Germany--Case studies.
Bilingualism in children.
French language--Study and teaching--Turkish speakers.
German language--Study and teaching--Turkish speakers.
Motion in language.
Second language acquisition.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINESÂ / Linguistics / General.
Bilingualism. Crosslinguistic Influence. Language Dominance. Motion Events.
P115.2 P115.2
404/.2083