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On the Nature of Cross-Linguistic Transfer: A Case Study of Andean Spanish
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Muntendam, Antje G. – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2013
This paper presents the results of a study on cross-linguistic transfer in Andean Spanish word order. In Andean Spanish the object appears in preverbal position more frequently than in non-Andean Spanish, which has been attributed to an influence from Quechua (a Subject-Object-Verb language). The high frequency of preverbal objects could be…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), American Indian Languages, Linguistic Borrowing, Transfer of Training
When Boundaries Are Crossed: Evaluating Language Attrition Data from Two Perspectives
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Schmitt, Elena – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2010
This study provides an account for a long-term selective loss of L1 (Russian) morpho-syntactic and content components in early immigrants to the U.S. The analysis of naturally occurring data is carried out from the perspective of two theoretical approaches--three models developed within language contact (Myers-Scotton 2002, 2005) and the…
Descriptors: Russian, Language Acquisition, Language Skill Attrition, Linguistic Borrowing
Codeswitching and Generative Grammar: A Critique of the MLF Model and Some Remarks on "Modified Minimalism"
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MacSwan, Jeff – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2005
This article presents an empirical and theoretical critique of the Matrix Language Frame (MLF) model (Myers-Scotton, 1993; Myers-Scotton and Jake, 2001), and includes a response to Jake, Myers-Scotton and Gross's (2002) (JMSG) critique of MacSwan (1999, 2000) and reactions to their revision of the MLF model as a "modified minimalist approach." The…
Descriptors: Generative Grammar, Linguistic Borrowing, Syntax, Bilingualism
Bilingual First Language Acquisition at the Interface between Syntax and Pragmatics.
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Hulk, Aafke; Muller, Natascha – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2000
Suggests that in acquiring two languages from birth, bilingual children separate their grammars from very early on. Focuses on the acquisition of syntax in a generative framework. Argues that cross-linguistic influence can occur if an interface level between two modules of grammar is involved, and the two languages overlap at the surface level…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Cognitive Processes, Grammar, Linguistic Borrowing
Crosslinguistic Influence and Language Dominance in Older Bilingual Children
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Argyri, Efrosyni; Sorace, Antonella – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2007
The point of departure of this study is the well-known hypothesis according to which structures that involve the syntax-pragmatics interface and instantiate a surface overlap between two languages are more vulnerable to crosslinguistic influence than purely syntactic domains (e.g. Muller and Hulk, 2001). In exploring the validity of this…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Language Dominance, Syntax, Monolingualism
The Attributive Possessive in Moroccan Arabic Spoken by Young Bilinguals in the Netherlands and Their Peers in Morocco
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Boumans, Louis – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2006
Moroccan Arabic has two competing syntactic constructions for possessive marking: a synthetic one and an analytic one. The distribution of these constructions is investigated in semi-spontaneous narratives (frog stories) from four Moroccan cities and from the diaspora community in the Netherlands. This distribution is found to depend very much on…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Language Dominance, Linguistic Borrowing, Dialects