Morphological generalization in bilingual language production
- Morphological variability in bilingual language production is widely attested. Producing inflected words has been found to be less reliable and consistent in bilinguals than in first-language (functionally monolingual) L1 speakers, even for bilingual speakers at advanced proficiency levels. The sources for these differences are not well understood. The current study presents a detailed investigation of morphological generalization processes in bilingual speakers' language production. We examined past participle formation of German using an elicited-production experiment containing nonce verbs with varying degrees of similarity to existing verbs testing a large group of bilingual Turkish/German speakers relative to L1 German speakers. We compared similarity-based lexical extensions with generalizations of morphological rules. The results show that rule-based generalizations are used less often and more variably within the bilingual group than within the L1 group. Our results also show a selective effect of age of acquisition on theMorphological variability in bilingual language production is widely attested. Producing inflected words has been found to be less reliable and consistent in bilinguals than in first-language (functionally monolingual) L1 speakers, even for bilingual speakers at advanced proficiency levels. The sources for these differences are not well understood. The current study presents a detailed investigation of morphological generalization processes in bilingual speakers' language production. We examined past participle formation of German using an elicited-production experiment containing nonce verbs with varying degrees of similarity to existing verbs testing a large group of bilingual Turkish/German speakers relative to L1 German speakers. We compared similarity-based lexical extensions with generalizations of morphological rules. The results show that rule-based generalizations are used less often and more variably within the bilingual group than within the L1 group. Our results also show a selective effect of age of acquisition on the bilingual speakers' morphological generalizations.…
| Author details: | Harald ClahsenORCiDGND, Anna JessenORCiDGND |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1080/10489223.2021.1910267 |
| ISSN: | 1048-9223 |
| ISSN: | 1532-7817 |
| Title of parent work (English): | Language acquisition : a journal of developmental linguistics |
| Subtitle (English): | age of acquisition determines variability |
| Publisher: | Psychology Press, Taylor & Francis Group |
| Place of publishing: | London |
| Publication type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of first publication: | 2021/05/13 |
| Publication year: | 2021 |
| Release date: | 2023/01/23 |
| Volume: | 28 |
| Issue: | 4 |
| Number of pages: | 17 |
| First page: | 370 |
| Last Page: | 386 |
| Funding institution: | Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), Collaborative Research CentreGerman Research Foundation (DFG) [SFB 1287, 317633480] |
| Organizational units: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Kognitionswissenschaften / Department Linguistik |
| DDC classification: | 1 Philosophie und Psychologie / 15 Psychologie / 150 Psychologie |
| 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 37 Bildung und Erziehung / 370 Bildung und Erziehung | |
| 4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache | |
| Peer review: | Referiert |
| Publishing method: | Open Access / Hybrid Open-Access |
| License (German): |  CC-BY-NC-ND - Namensnennung, nicht kommerziell, keine Bearbeitungen 4.0 International |
