Language Dominance Affects Bilingual Performance and Processing Outcomes in Adulthood

Frontiers in Psychology

Eloi Puig-Mayenco¹ 

关键词: language dominance;    Negative Concord Items;    Differential Object Marking;    early bilinguals;    Catalan/Spanish;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01199

学科分类：心理学（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

This study examines the role of language dominance (LD) on linguistic competence outcomes in two types of early bilinguals: (i) child L2 learners of Catalan (L1 Spanish-L2 Catalan and, (ii) child Spanish L2 learners (L1 Catalan-L2 Spanish). Most child L2 studies typically focus on the development of the languages during childhood and either focus on L1 development or L2 development. Typically, these child L2 learners are immersed in the second language. We capitalize on the unique situation in Catalonia, testing the Spanish and Catalan of both sets of bilinguals, where dominance in either Spanish or Catalan is possible. We examine the co-occurrence of Sentential Negation (SN) with a Negative Concord Item (NCI) in pre-verbal position (Catalan only) and Differential Object Marking (DOM) (Spanish only). The results show that remaining dominant in the L1 contributes to the maintenance of target-like behavior in the language.

【 授权许可】

CC BY