LING 350 Lecture 9: February 9th
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Dual language system hypothesis: autonomous, interdependent? (transfer, acceleration, delay) Interdependence: systemic influence of grammar of one language on grammar of the other language (contrasting to performance errors or pragmatic code mixing) Transfer (of a grammatical property from one language (usually dominant) to the other (usually non-dominant). Acceleration (a property emerges in the grammar earlier than would be the norm in monolingual acquisition under the influence from the other grammar) Delay (a property emerges in the grammar later than the norm in monolingual acquisition; the burden of acquiring two languages could slow down the acquisition process in bilinguals. ) French children acquire inflection earlier than english children (d prez & pierce. 1993, 1994). (recall: french is a [-zero] morphology language, a possible explanation for this observation. ) Finitenessat each interval, the children used more finite (main) verbs in french than they did in english. Rate of production of finite verbs in french fell within the range of monolingual french children.
