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The Effects of Language Input on Word Order in German as a Heritage and Majority Language
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Sopata, Aldona; Dlugosz, Kamil – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2022
This study addresses the question of how the main factors related to input--including the environment in which children are exposed to both languages, the relative timing of the onset of the exposure to them and the amount of input--affect bilingual language acquisition at primary-school age. We examined the data of 42 German Polish bilinguals who…
Descriptors: Linguistic Input, German, Word Order, Bilingualism
Acquisition in Variation (and Vice Versa): V-to-T in Faroese Children
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Heycock, Caroline; Sorace, Antonella; Hansen, Zakaris Svabo; Wilson, Frances – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2013
Faroese is at the tail end of a change from an Icelandic-type syntax in which V-to-T is obligatory to a Danish-type system in which this movement is impossible. While the older word order is very rarely produced by adult Faroese speakers, there is evidence that this order is still marginally present in the adult grammar and thus only dispreferred,…
Descriptors: Syntax, Language Variation, Word Order, Indo European Languages
Early Word Order Representations: Novel Arguments against Old Contradictions
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Franck, Julie; Millotte, Severine; Lassotta, Romy – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2011
One major controversy in the field of language development concerns the nature of children's early representations of word order. While studies using preferential looking methods suggest that children as early as 20 months represent word order as an abstract, grammatical property, experiments using the Weird Word Order (WWO) paradigm suggest that…
Descriptors: Word Order, Language Acquisition, Young Children, Grammar
A Large-Scale Cross-Linguistic Investigation of the Acquisition of Passive
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Armon-Lotem, Sharon; Haman, Ewa; de López, Kristine Jensen; Smoczynska, Magdalena; Yatsushiro, Kazuko; Szczerbinski, Marcin; van Hout, Angeliek; Dabašinskiene, Ineta; Gavarró, Anna; Hobbs, Erin; Kamandulyte-Merfeldiene, Laura; Katsos, Napoleon; Kunnari, Sari; Nitsiou, Chrisa; Olsen, Lone Sundahl; Parramon, Xavier; Sauerland, Uli; Torn-Leesik, Reeli; van der Lely, Heather – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2016
This cross-linguistic study evaluates children's understanding of passives in 11 typologically different languages: Catalan, Cypriot Greek, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, German, Hebrew, Lithuanian, and Polish. The study intends to determine whether the reported gaps between the comprehension of active and passive and between short and…
Descriptors: Language Research, Form Classes (Languages), Language Processing, Language Acquisition
Early Acquisition of Basic Word Order in Japanese
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Sugisaki, Koji – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2008
The acquisition of word order has been one of the central issues in the study of child language. One striking finding from the detailed investigation of various child languages is that from the earliest observable stages, children are highly sensitive to the basic word order of their target language. However, the evidence so far comes mainly from…
Descriptors: Child Language, Word Order, Language Acquisition, Japanese
Distributive Quantifier Scope in English-Japanese and Korean-Japanese Interlanguage
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Marsden, Heather – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2009
This article reports on an experimental investigation of knowledge of distributivity in nonnative (L2) Japanese learners whose first language (L1) is English or Korean. The availability of distributive scope in Japanese is modulated by word order and the semantic features of quantifiers. For English-speaking learners, these subtle interpretive…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Semantics, Syntax, Word Order