Advances in the Study of Bilingualism
Future research is necessary in order to determine the extent to which even highly proficient bilinguals deviate from monolingua ...
Part 2 Bilingual Language Development ...
41 3 Cross-linguistic Infl uence and Patterns of Acquisition Enlli Môn Thomas, Katja F. Cantone, Susanne Davies and Anna Shadrov ...
those factors that are relevant to our German-Welsh sample, before proceed- ing to present some pertinent patterns emerging from ...
nominative and accusative case. Similarly, der indicates masculine in the nominative, but feminine in the dative (and genitive: ...
In Welsh, the initial consonant sound of feminine singular nouns undergo SM after the definite article y(r) ‘the’ and after the ...
Beyond the involvement of mutation, there are additional features that make the gender system even less transparent (see Gatherc ...
experimental conditions (e.g. Mills, 1978) (see also Szagun, 2004, for reports of similar errors with der). With respect to gend ...
German monolinguals? The data presented in this chapter allow us to map the development of gender in German and in Welsh, and ca ...
Acquisition of Word Order in German and Welsh German Children’s acquisition of German word order has been well explored (cf. Cla ...
Exploring the notion of cross-linguistic transfer across German and Welsh is a central goal of the study discussed in this chapt ...
Central to this debate is whether such interactions are expressed as instances of transfer, facilitation, or delay (Paradis & ...
is pervasive – ‘sustained over a period of time’ (Paradis & Genesee, 1996: 3) not resulting from temporary performance effe ...
as demonstrated in studies of German-English bilinguals (Tracy, 1995; Döpke, 1998), than in typologically-distant pairings (e.g. ...
In the case of Child Participant 2 (CP2), the mother was a native German speaker from Hannover and the father a native Welsh-spe ...
Gender Data Owing to the differences in the gender systems of both languages, German utterances were analysed for instances of g ...
As mentioned above, for German, it has been observed that children start to utter articles at around age two (cf. Eisenbeiss, 20 ...
determiner forms (in terms of tokens) was very low in comparison to monolinguals. The next section outlines the children’s gende ...
In the rare cases where determiner forms were used, the gender of the modified noun was marked appropriately (i.e. the feminine ...
Such a development is in line with previous findings demonstrating that gender marking for natural gender has been reported to b ...
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