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Restructuring in heritage grammars
Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism ( IF 1.815 ) Pub Date : 2019-08-06 , DOI: 10.1075/lab.18069.mei
Natalia Meir 1 , Maria Polinsky 2
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Abstract This study investigates restructuring in heritage language (HL) grammars with a special focus on the driving forces behind changes in the underlying grammar. We evaluate the effect of Age of Onset of bilingualism (AoO) on possible grammatical restructuring. Relatedly, we assess whether HL grammar divergence from the baseline can be attributed to the Age of Acquisition of a particular linguistic phenomenon and/or to the structural properties of the dominant language, under transfer. With these general questions in mind, we conducted an auditory acceptability judgement task evaluating sensitivity to form (mis)matches in adjective-noun and numeral-noun expressions in adult Russian-Hebrew speakers: HL-speakers with AoO before age 5, HL-speakers with AoO between 5–13, and the Russian-dominant bilinguals. The results demonstrate a robust effect of AoO: HL speakers with earlier AoO are less accurate in detecting ungrammaticalities across the board. We argue that similarities in the structures in the heritage and dominant language allow HL speakers to maintain properties of monolingual grammars; dissimilarities, on the other hand, may lead to reanalysis in the HL grammar. However, the newly-built representations in the HL do not match those of the dominant language, suggesting that changed representations do not result from direct transfer.

中文翻译:

遗产语法的重构

摘要 本研究调查了传统语言 (HL) 语法的重构,特别关注基础语法变化背后的驱动力。我们评估了双语发病年龄 (AoO) 对可能的语法重组的影响。相关地,我们评估了 HL 语法与基线的差异是否可归因于特定语言现象的习得时代和/或转移下的主导语言的结构特性。考虑到这些一般问题,我们进行了一项听觉可接受性判断任务,以评估成年俄语-希伯来语使用者对形容词-名词和数字-名词表达形式(错误)匹配的敏感性:5 岁前有 AoO 的 HL 使用者,HL 使用者AoO 介于 5-13 之间,以及以俄语为主的双语者。结果证明了 AoO 的强大效果:具有较早 AoO 的 HL 说话者在全面检测不合语法时不太准确。我们认为,传统语言和主导语言结构的相似性使讲 HL 的人能够保持单语语法的属性;另一方面,不同之处可能会导致 HL 语法的重新分析。然而,HL 中新建的表示与主导语言的表示不匹配,这表明改变的表示不是由直接转移引起的。可能会导致重新分析 HL 语法。然而,HL 中新建的表示与主导语言的表示不匹配,这表明改变的表示不是由直接转移引起的。可能会导致重新分析 HL 语法。然而,HL 中新建的表示与主导语言的表示不匹配,这表明改变的表示不是由直接转移引起的。
更新日期:2019-08-06
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