L1 versus Dominant Language Transfer Effects in L2 and Heritage Speakers of Italian: A Structural Priming Study

Autor/in	Romano, Francesco
Titel	L1 versus Dominant Language Transfer Effects in L2 and Heritage Speakers of Italian: A Structural Priming Study
Quelle	In: Applied Linguistics, 42 (2021) 5, S.945-969 (25 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0142-6001
DOI	10.1093/applin/amaa056
Schlagwörter	Native Language; Second Language Learning; Transfer of Training; Grammar; Priming; Task Analysis; Language Dominance; Italian; Swedish; Oral Language; Contrastive Linguistics; Linguistic Theory; Semantics; Syntax; Comparative Analysis; Monolingualism; Developmental Stages; Age Differences + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Zweitsprachenerwerb; Training; Transfer; Ausbildung; Grammatik; Aufgabenanalyse; Sprachliche Dominanz; Italienisch; Schwedisch; Oral interpretation; Mündlicher Sprachgebrauch; Linguistics; Kontrastive Linguistik; Linguistische Theorie; Semantik; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied
Abstract	Conversely to plenty of studies describing how L1 transfer affects L2 systems, where the two grammars, L1/L2, often only come to interact later in life, less is known of dominant language transfer in heritage language grammars. Unlike in L2 speakers, the dominant language of the heritage speaker potentially affects its weaker language already from childhood. Evidence of dominant language transfer, however, exists in language production studies focusing on syntax. Therefore, an oral structural priming task was employed to compare transfer effects in advanced Swedish speakers of Italian and early heritage Italian speakers dominant in Swedish. Intrinsic to this comparison is the Basic Continuity hypothesis (Romano 2018), which proposes that highly proficient L2 speakers integrate semantic and syntactic information relevant to an L2 property lacking in the L1 in native-like ways. Results showed that heritage and L2 grammars are similarly impervious to transfer effects and coordinate structural and lexico-semantic information in native-like ways, consistent with the Basic Continuity. Divergence from native controls is shown to be remarkably compatible with monolingual grammars at earlier developmental stages. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01