Inter-generational attrition

IF 1.8 2区 文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS
Giuditta Smith, Roberta Spelorzi, Antonella Sorace, Maria Garraffa
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Abstract The phenomenon of language change in contact has been explored most significantly in speakers of a language who migrate, while fewer studies explore how language is affected across different generations. In this study, we aimed to investigate the role of inter-generational attrition on the production of clitic pronouns and clitic clusters. 86 adult speakers of Italian took part in the study: homeland residents, long-term UK residents, and heritage speakers born and living in the UK from Italian families. Participants were tested on the production of different instances of clitic pronouns including clusters, a novelty of the study, and differences in response distribution were analysed with General Additive Models. Results reveal that the homeland population shows a strong preference for the production of clitics and clitic clusters, long-term residents retain a preference for clitics but not clusters, and heritage speakers disfavour the use of both clitics and clusters across the board, preferring the use of lexical items. This neat pattern of use across generations of migrants suggests a loss of the specificity and preference of clitics through language transmission between different generations of speakers of Italian removed from the homeland and immersed in a non-clitic language.
代际磨损
语言在接触中变化的现象在迁移的语言使用者中得到了最显著的研究,而关于语言在不同世代之间如何受到影响的研究较少。在本研究中,我们旨在探讨代际磨耗在人称代词和人称集群产生中的作用。86名说意大利语的成年人参加了这项研究:本国居民、长期居住在英国的居民,以及出生和生活在英国的意大利家庭。研究人员测试了参与者对包括集群在内的不同clitic代词的产生情况,这是一项新颖的研究,并使用一般加性模型分析了反应分布的差异。结果表明,母语人群对词性词和词性词簇的产生有强烈的偏好,长期居民对词性词簇的产生有偏好,而对词性词簇的产生没有偏好,而母语人群对词性词和词性词簇的使用普遍不喜欢,他们更喜欢使用词汇项。这种跨越几代移民的整齐的使用模式表明,通过离开祖国并沉浸在非clitic语言中的不同代的意大利语使用者之间的语言传播,clitic的特殊性和偏好有所丧失。
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Linguistic Approaches To Bilingualism
Linguistic Approaches To Bilingualism Social Sciences-Linguistics and Language
CiteScore
3.20
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9.10%
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期刊介绍: LAB provides an outlet for cutting-edge, contemporary studies on bilingualism. LAB assumes a broad definition of bilingualism, including: adult L2 acquisition, simultaneous child bilingualism, child L2 acquisition, adult heritage speaker competence, L1 attrition in L2/Ln environments, and adult L3/Ln acquisition. LAB solicits high quality articles of original research assuming any cognitive science approach to understanding the mental representation of bilingual language competence and performance, including cognitive linguistics, emergentism/connectionism, generative theories, psycholinguistic and processing accounts, and covering typical and atypical populations.
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