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A Case Study in Linguistic Interference: Overt Subject Realization by Spanish-English Bilinguals in Spanish |
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Cathernine Nussbaum - The Ohio State University
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John Grinstead - The Ohio State University
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| SRCLD Year: |
2014 |
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Poster Presentation |
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| - Cognition/Language |
| - Cross Linguistic Comparison |
| - Language Acquisition |
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Hulk & Müller (2000) propose that constructions are likely to undergo interference in bilinguals if they occur at the discourse-syntax interface and if they superficially overlap between the two languages. In the current case study we address this question for overt subjects in the Spanish of Spanish-English bilinguals. Bilingual and monolingual children at this early stage of development (MLUw Stage 1: 1.5-2.0 and MLUw Stage 2: 2.0-3.0) did not differ in their overall rate of overt subject use in Spanish, but did differ in the types of overt subjects they used: bilinguals using significantly more personal pronouns (p=.027 ) and monolinguals using significantly more lexical NPs (p=.034). Bilingual children appeared to use the English strategy of using overt pronominals instead of the Spanish option, which allows either overt or null pronominals. Further, as bilinguals’ Spanish develops, they use more overt subjects that serve no clear pragmatic purpose, when compared to monolinguals (p=.002), suggesting transfer on the pragmatic level. Our results support the conclusions of Hulk & Müller.
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