Dominant Language Transfer in Adult Second Language Learners and Heritage Speakers

Autor/in	Montrul, Silvina
Titel	Dominant Language Transfer in Adult Second Language Learners and Heritage Speakers
Quelle	In: Second Language Research, 26 (2010) 3, S.293-327 (35 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0267-6583
DOI	10.1177/0267658310365768
Schlagwörter	Language Dominance; Linguistic Borrowing; Semantics; Syntax; Second Language Learning; Language Acquisition; Pragmatics; Transfer of Training; Spanish; English (Second Language); Form Classes (Languages); Oral Language; Task Analysis; Grammar; Role + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sprachliche Dominanz; Lehnwort; Semantik; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Pragmalinguistik; Training; Transfer; Ausbildung; Spanisch; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Analytischer Sprachbau; Oral interpretation; Mündlicher Sprachgebrauch; Aufgabenanalyse; Grammatik; Rollen
Abstract	The effects of language transfer have been amply documented in second language (L2) acquisition and, to a lesser extent, in the language contact/loss literature (Cook, 2003). In both cases, the stronger and often dominant language encroaches into the structure of the less dominant language in systematic ways. But are transfer effects in these two situations comparable: is first language (L1) influence in adult L2 learners similar to L2 influence in the L1 of early bilinguals? The current study addresses this question by investigating knowledge of Spanish clitics, clitic left dislocations, and differential object marking (DOM) in 72 L2 learners and 67 Spanish heritage speakers. The contact language, English, is assumed to not instantiate these syntactic properties. Results of an oral production task and a written acceptability judgment task indicated overall advantages for the heritage speakers in some areas, but similar effects of transfer from English in the two groups. Transfer effects were less pronounced with core aspects of grammar (syntax proper in the case of clitics) than with aspects of grammar that lie at the interfaces of syntax and semantics/pragmatics, as in the case of clitic left dislocations and DOM. These findings have implications for current views on the vulnerability of certain linguistic interfaces in language development (Sorace, 2004; Serratrice et al., 2004; Tsimpli and Sorace, 2006; White, 2009) and for theories that stress the role of age in L2 acquisition and permanent transfer effects. (Contains 22 notes, 6 tables, and 7 figures.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10