Hervé Coralie, Serratrice Ludovica
University of Essex,UK.
University of Reading,UK.
J Child Lang. 2018 May;45(3):767-787. doi: 10.1017/S0305000917000459. Epub 2017 Nov 10.
This paper reports the preliminary results of a study examining the role of structural overlap, language exposure, and language use on cross-linguistic influence (CLI) in bilingual first language acquisition. We focus on the longitudinal development of determiners in a corpus of two French-English children between the ages of 2;4 and 3;7. The results display bi-directional CLI in the rate of development, i.e., accelerated development in English and a minor delay in French. Unidirectional CLI from English to French was instead observed in the significantly higher rate of ungrammatical determiner omissions in plural and generic contexts than in singular specific contexts in French. These findings suggest that other language-internal mechanisms may be at play. They also lend support to the role of expressive abilities on the magnitude of this phenomenon.
本文报告了一项研究的初步结果，该研究考察了结构重叠、语言接触和语言使用在双语第一语言习得中的跨语言影响（CLI）作用。我们关注的是2岁4个月至3岁7个月的两名法英双语儿童语料库中限定词的纵向发展。结果显示，在发展速度上存在双向跨语言影响，即在英语中发展加速，在法语中稍有延迟。相反，从英语到法语的单向跨语言影响体现在，在法语中，复数和类属语境中限定词的非语法性省略率显著高于单数特定语境。这些发现表明，可能存在其他语言内部机制在起作用。它们也支持了表达能力在这一现象程度上的作用。
