Referential expressions in bilingual acquisition

Serratrice, L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5141-6186 and Hervé, C. (2015) Referential expressions in bilingual acquisition. In: Serratrice, L. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5141-6186 and Allen, S. E. M. (eds.) The Acquisition of Reference. Trends in Language Acquisition Research (15). John Benjamins, Amsterdam, pp. 311-333. ISBN 9789027244048 doi: 10.1075/tilar.15

Abstract/Summary

Just like monolingual children, bilingual children need to carve up the referential space to understand and produce discourse-appropriate referential expressions. In the case of bilinguals, this demanding task additionally requires language-specific form-function mappings that may be structurally similar or different in their two languages. Cases of partial form-function overlap across languages, especially with respect to third person pronouns, have been the focus of much scrutiny in connection with the issue of cross-linguistic influence. In this chapter we review naturalistic and experimental evidence showing how the degree of structural overlap across two languages, the degree of variability in the target language(s), and the amount of input that is necessary to home in on the target grammar(s) constrain the comprehension and production of referential expressions in bilingual acquisition.

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Identification Number/DOI	10.1075/tilar.15
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Life Sciences > School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences > Department of Clinical Language Sciences Life Sciences > School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences > Language and Cognition
Publisher	John Benjamins
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