Relative clauses in child heritage speakers of Turkish in the United States

IF 1.8 2区文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

Linguistic Approaches To Bilingualism Pub Date : 2022-03-07 DOI:10.1075/lab.21027.cos

Aylin Coşkun Kunduz, S. Montrul

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Abstract

How does complex syntax develop in heritage language children? This study investigates child Turkish heritage speakers’ comprehension and production of relative clauses (RCs) in Turkish and in English. RCs vary on their syntactic functions (subject, object) and show asymmetric patterns of acquisition and processing, which have been explained by linear distance, structural distance and input factors. Thirty-two child Turkish HS (ages 6–15) and 48 monolingual Turkish children (ages 3–15) completed a picture-sentence matching (comprehension) task and a sentence repetition (production) task in Turkish. The Turkish HS were tested on the RC comprehension and production tasks in English as well. The results indicated that the child HS showed (i) better performance in English than in Turkish with increasing age, (ii) better comprehension than production of Turkish RCs, (iii) replacement of complex RCs with simple juxtaposition in Turkish, and (iv) a subject advantage in comprehension. We take these findings to suggest that Turkish RCs do not fully develop in child HS of Turkish in the U.S., although the strength of this explanation must be corroborated by a study of child and adult HS. Overall, the findings are most compatible with the structural distance account and other factors that may affect production.

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美国土耳其语儿童遗产中的关系从句

传统语言儿童的复杂句法是如何发展的?本研究调查了土耳其裔儿童对土耳其语和英语关系从句的理解和产生。RCs具有不同的句法功能(主语、宾语)，并表现出不对称的习得和加工模式，这可以用线性距离、结构距离和输入因素来解释。32名土耳其儿童(6-15岁)和48名单语土耳其儿童(3-15岁)用土耳其语完成了图句匹配(理解)任务和句子重复(制作)任务。同时，对土耳其高智商儿童进行了英语RC理解和生产任务测试。结果表明，随着年龄的增长，儿童HS表现出(i)英语比土耳其语更好的表现，(ii)比土耳其语的RCs更好的理解，(iii)用简单的土耳其语并置取代复杂的RCs，以及(iv)在理解方面具有主语优势。我们认为这些发现表明在美国的土耳其裔儿童HS中土耳其裔RCs并没有完全发展，尽管这一解释的强度必须通过对儿童和成人HS的研究来证实。总的来说，这些发现与结构距离解释和其他可能影响产量的因素最一致。

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Linguistic Approaches To Bilingualism Social Sciences-Linguistics and Language

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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.