Age of Acquisition and Proficiency as Factors in Language Production: Agreement in Bilinguals

Autor/in	Foote, Rebecca
Titel	Age of Acquisition and Proficiency as Factors in Language Production: Agreement in Bilinguals
Quelle	In: Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 13 (2010) 2, S.99-118 (20 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1366-7289
DOI	10.1017/S136672890999040X
Schlagwörter	Form Classes (Languages); Language Processing; Language Proficiency; Bilingualism; Grammar; Morphology (Languages); Second Language Learning; Syntax; English; Spanish + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Analytischer Sprachbau; Sprachverarbeitung; Language skill; Language skills; Sprachkompetenz; Bilingualismus; Grammatik; Morphology; Morphologie; Zweitsprachenerwerb; English language; Englisch; Spanisch
Abstract	Research on the production of subject-verb number agreement in monolinguals suggests differences between and within languages in how it proceeds as a function of morphological richness. When agreement morphology is relatively rich, the influence of conceptual number over grammatical number is less than when it is relatively poor. Within the framework of Eberhard, Cutting and Bock's (2005) marking and morphing account of agreement production, this finding is explained by how number features from the syntax and the lexicon are reconciled. This study asks: (1) Can this account of differences in agreement production as a function of morphological richness be extended to the case of bilinguals? (2) Do age of acquisition and/or proficiency modulate whether these differences surface in bilinguals? Agreement production was examined in early and late English-Spanish, and late Spanish-English bilinguals of varying proficiency. Higher-proficiency bilinguals patterned similarly to monolinguals, supporting the extension of the marking and morphing account. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10