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Reanalysis in Adult Heritage Language: New Evidence in Support of Attrition
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Polinsky, Maria – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2011
This study presents and analyzes the comprehension of relative clauses in child and adult speakers of Russian, comparing monolingual controls with Russian heritage speakers (HSs) who are English-dominant. Monolingual and bilingual children demonstrate full adultlike mastery of relative clauses. Adult HSs, however, are significantly different from…
Descriptors: Phrase Structure, Child Language, Monolingualism, Word Order
Syntactic Acquisition in Bilingual Children: Autonomous or Interdependent?
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Paradis, Johanne; Genesee, Fred – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1996
Investigates the potential interference between the grammars of French-English bilingual children, ages two to three years. The study examined their acquisition of functional categories, specifically the properties of INFL (finiteness and agreement) and negation. Results indicate that these children evidence no transfer, acceleration, or delay in…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, Code Switching (Language), English
Attrition in the Productive Lexicon of Two Portuguese Third Language Speakers.
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Cohen, Andrew D. – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 1989
A study of two English-Hebrew bilingual children's productive vocabulary loss in oral Portuguese after discontinued contact with the language investigated lexical loss in Portuguese storytelling behavior. Analysis focused on the nature of attrited productive lexicon, compensatory lexical production strategies, and lexical retrieval process.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Case Studies, Child Language, Code Switching (Language)