Reanalysis in Adult Heritage Language: New Evidence in Support of Attrition

Autor/in	Polinsky, Maria
Titel	Reanalysis in Adult Heritage Language: New Evidence in Support of Attrition
Quelle	In: Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 33 (2011) 2, S.305-328 (24 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0272-2631
DOI	10.1017/S027226311000077X
Schlagwörter	Phrase Structure; Child Language; Monolingualism; Word Order; Russian; Bilingualism; Native Language; English; Adults; Second Language Learning; Grammar; Comparative Analysis + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Phrasenstruktur; 'Children''s language'; Kindersprache; Wortfolge; Russisch; Bilingualismus; English language; Englisch; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Grammatik
Abstract	This study presents and analyzes the comprehension of relative clauses in child and adult speakers of Russian, comparing monolingual controls with Russian heritage speakers (HSs) who are English-dominant. Monolingual and bilingual children demonstrate full adultlike mastery of relative clauses. Adult HSs, however, are significantly different from the monolingual adult controls and from the child HS group. This divergent performance indicates that the adult heritage grammar is not a product of the fossilization of child language. Instead, it suggests that forms existing in the baseline undergo gradual attrition over the life span of a HS. This result is consistent with observations on narrative structure in child and adult HSs (Polinsky, 2008b). Evidence from word order facts suggests that relative clause reanalysis in adult HSs cannot be attributed to transfer from English. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10