Late Bilinguals Share Syntax Unsparingly between L1 and L2: Evidence from Crosslinguistically Similar and Different Constructions

Autor/inn/en	Hwang, Heeju; Shin, Jeong-Ah; Hartsuiker, Robert J.
Titel	Late Bilinguals Share Syntax Unsparingly between L1 and L2: Evidence from Crosslinguistically Similar and Different Constructions
Quelle	In: Language Learning, 68 (2018) 1, S.177-205 (29 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0023-8333
DOI	10.1111/lang.12272
Schlagwörter	Bilingualism; Syntax; Language Processing; Korean; Contrastive Linguistics; English (Second Language); Second Language Learning; Task Analysis; Pictorial Stimuli; Transfer of Training; Language Proficiency + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bilingualismus; Sprachverarbeitung; Koreanisch; Linguistics; Kontrastive Linguistik; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Aufgabenanalyse; Fantasieanregung; Training; Transfer; Ausbildung; Language skill; Language skills; Sprachkompetenz
Abstract	Languages often use different constructions to convey the same meaning. For example, the meaning of a causative construction in English ("Jen had her computer fixed") is conveyed using an active structure in Korean ("Jen-NOM her computer-ACC fixed"), and yet little is known about how bilinguals represent and process such constructions. The present study investigated whether late bilinguals develop shared or language-specific representations for crosslinguistically different (causatives) and similar (transitives) constructions. Using between-language structural priming, Experiment 1 showed that proficient Korean-English bilinguals exhibited a stronger priming effect for transitives than did less proficient bilinguals. Using a picture-sentence verification task, Experiment 2 showed that proficient bilinguals were more likely to apply the rules of Korean causatives to the processing of English causatives than were less proficient bilinguals. Our results suggest that Korean-English bilinguals share syntactic representations for both similar and different constructions, indicating that the bilingual system is highly integrated. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01