Eintrag

Titel

Adjective placement in simultaneous bilinguals (German-Italian) and the concept of cross-linguistic overcorrection

Personen

Tanja Kupisch

Jahr

2014

Typ

Aufsatz

Periodikum

Bilingualism
Language and cognition

ISSN

1366-7289

Seiten

222 - 233

Band

17

Heft

1

Sprache(n)

Deutsch
Italienisch

Schlagwörter

Adjektiv
Spracherwerb
Wortstellung

Abstract

Cross-linguistic influence (CLI) has been claimed to occur under the conditions of structural overlap, interfacing, syntactic complexity and language dominance. This study tested adjective placement in the Italian of 19 adult German–Italian simultaneous bilinguals, comparing naturalistic and experimental data. The results show no CLI from German, although the conditions for CLI are given. Instead, bilingual adults tend to overuse a structure that is unique to Italian, unlike bilingual children in previous studies. However, they do so only in the experimental data. In order to account for this, I introduce the concept of cross-linguistic overcorrection in contrast to cross-linguistic influence.

https://grammis.ids-mannheim.de/bdg/81587