Encoding Motion Events: The Impact of Language-Specific Patterns and Language Dominance in Bilingual Children

Till J. Nesta Woerfel

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2018

Encoding Motion Events

The Impact of Language-Specific Patterns and Language Dominance in Bilingual Children

Till J. Nesta Woerfel

Volume 58 in the series Studies on Language Acquisition [SOLA]

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501507977

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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.

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Till J. Nesta Woerfel, Universität zu Köln, Cologne, Germany

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	V
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
List of Figures Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	XI
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1. Introduction Publicly Available Download PDF	1
2. Multicompetence in child bilingualism Publicly Available Download PDF	10
3. Motion events in language and cognition Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	42
4. Motion events in first and bilingual language acquisition Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
5. Implications and general assumptions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
6. Methodology Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
7. Study on language dominance patterns and motion encoding by Turkish-German and Turkish-French bilinguals Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	143
8. General discussion and future directions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	307
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(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Audience: Scholars and Academic Libraries
Pages
- Front matter: 20
- Main content: 379
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 44
- Tables: 118
Keywords: Motion Events; Bilingualism; Language Dominance; Crosslinguistic Influence

eBook

Published: September 10, 2018
ISBN: 9781501507977

Hardcover

Published: September 10, 2018
ISBN: 9781501516498

Paperback

Published: July 6, 2020
ISBN: 9781501521416