Competition between Word Order and Case-Marking in Interpreting Grammatical Relations: A Case Study in Multilingual Acquisition

Autor/in	O'Shannessy, Carmel
Titel	Competition between Word Order and Case-Marking in Interpreting Grammatical Relations: A Case Study in Multilingual Acquisition
Quelle	In: Journal of Child Language, 38 (2011) 4, S.763-792 (30 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0305-0009
DOI	10.1017/S0305000910000358
Schlagwörter	Video Technology; Sentences; Language Research; Form Classes (Languages); Grammar; Multilingualism; Word Order; Child Language; Learning Strategies; Uncommonly Taught Languages; Language Patterns; Transfer of Training; Young Children; Foreign Countries; Australia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sentence analysis; Satzanalyse; Sprachforschung; Analytischer Sprachbau; Grammatik; Mehrsprachigkeit; Multilingualismus; Wortfolge; 'Children''s language'; Kindersprache; Learning methode; Learning techniques; Lernmethode; Lernstrategie; Minderheitensprache; Sprachmodell; Sprachstruktur; Training; Transfer; Ausbildung; Frühe Kindheit; Ausland; Australien
Abstract	The study examines strategies multilingual children use to interpret grammatical relations, focusing on their two primary languages, Lajamanu Warlpiri and Light Warlpiri. Both languages use mixed systems for indicating grammatical relations. In both languages ergative-absolutive case-marking indicates core arguments, but to different extents in each language. In Lajamanu Warlpiri, pronominal clitics in a nominative-accusative pattern also indicate core arguments, and in Light Warlpiri word order in a nominative-accusative pattern partially does so. The study asks which sentence interpretation strategies children rely on most, when they learn to rely on them and whether cross-linguistic influences are seen. Children aged 5 ; 0, 7 ; 0 and 9 ; 0 and adults saw paired, animated events simultaneously on video and heard a transitive sentence spoken. The participants pointed to the event depicted by the sentence heard. Adults used a case-marking strategy consistently in both languages. Children initially used both case-marking and word order strategies, but used case-marking more often as age increased. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10