Crosslinguistic Influence in Scope Ambiguity: Evidence for Acceleration

L. Meroni; Liz Smeets; Sharon Unsworth

doi:10.1075/sibil.52

Crosslinguistic Influence in Scope Ambiguity: Evidence for Acceleration

L. Meroni, Liz Smeets, Sharon Unsworth

LS Italiaanse taal, letteren en cultuur

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Cross-linguistic influence of interface-conditioned properties in bilingual language acquisition has been reported in a large number of studies and various linguistic domains. While many of these studies have found that cross-linguistic influence can occur in the form of delay, few have shown evidence for acceleration (a.o., Kupisch, 2007; Meisel, 2007; Schwartz, Nir, Leikin, Levie, & Ravid, 2014). In this paper we investigate the interpretation of indefinites in sentences containing negation by simultaneous bilingual (2L1) English-Dutch and Italian-Dutch children. Our results provide evidence for cross-linguistic influence from Italian to Dutch in the form of acceleration, only. We conclude that in cases of partial overlap between a bilingual child’s two languages, the direction of cross-linguistic influence can also depend on language-internal properties.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Crosslinguistic Influencein Bilingualism
Editors	Elma Blom, Leonie Cornips, Jeannette Schaeffer
Place of Publication	Amsterdam
Publisher	John Benjamins
Pages	181-206
ISBN (Print)	9789027265616
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1075/sibil.52
Publication status	Published - 2017

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Name	Studies in Bilingualism
Volume	52

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Crosslinguistic Influence in Scope Ambiguity: Evidence for Acceleration. / Meroni, L.; Smeets, Liz; Unsworth, Sharon.
Crosslinguistic Influencein Bilingualism. ed. / Elma Blom; Leonie Cornips; Jeannette Schaeffer. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2017. p. 181-206 (Studies in Bilingualism; Vol. 52).

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