Advances in the Study of Bilingualism
emerging knowledge of the system in German does little to facilitate their development of the system in Welsh. Likewise, their l ...
The sentence structure in 6(a) mirrors that which is plausible in Welsh (6(b)), although, since the structures in both languages ...
order restrictions for the placement of the main verb in both languages by the age of 2;10,18. Conclusion This chapter aimed to ...
‘equivalent’ structure in another. Again, further analysis are planned to help identify the role of dominance, frequency, and ex ...
63 Bilingual Construction of Two Systems 1 Virginia C. Mueller Gathercole, Rocío Pérez-Tattam, Hans Stadthagen-González and Enll ...
2003, 2009; Wolff & Ventura, 2009) between the two systems. This chapter will explore the question of interaction in these t ...
elements such as topic-comment relations are expressed, but not, for exam- ple, the verbal endings from one language to the othe ...
in development in English is for early non-use of be followed by later inser- tion of be as the child matures (Becker, 2000, 200 ...
over covert forms, in such cases. In another study, Serratrice and Sorace dis- covered that even Italian-Spanish bilinguals (spe ...
Present Perfect Future Time Conjunctions (before/after/until) OS Relative Clauses SS Relative Clauses SO Relative Clauses Quanti ...
active sentences and simple negatives to be learned fairly early in the two languages (Bloom, 1973; Borsley & Jones, 2001; B ...
B. Those that are structurally dissimilar are the following: Passive E: BE/GET + PP; W: GET Poss V Present Perfect: E: have + PP ...
Similarly, with OS and SS relatives, English uses a complementizer, as in (3), whereas Welsh may not, as in (4): (3) A pig smell ...
In each version, each type of grammatical structure was tested with the three trials in a forced-choice picture task, with four ...
Results General fi ndings The full report of the overall results from the study can be found in Gathercole et al. (2013). To sum ...
Comparisons across the ages showed the greatest differences across home language groups at the youngest ages, and subsequent con ...
comparable in structure, but not where English and Welsh differ in structure. If, on the other hand, correlations occurred in ca ...
Acceleration by group? To examine the question of possible acceleration more closely, one further set of analyses would be relev ...
Bilingual Construction of Two Systems 77 Table 4.6 Predictions regarding acceleration or delay by home language group Prediction ...
In order to examine performance, to determine whether any of the three types of predictions are substantiated by the data, mean ...
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