@inproceedings{90557653ddd142b09639e68089bdb175,
title = "Crosslinguistic Influence in Scope Ambiguity: Evidence for Acceleration",
abstract = "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{\textquoteright}s two languages, the direction of cross-linguistic influence can also depend on language-internal properties.",
author = "L. Meroni and Liz Smeets and Sharon Unsworth",
year = "2017",
doi = "10.1075/sibil.52",
language = "English",
isbn = "9789027265616",
series = "Studies in Bilingualism",
publisher = "John Benjamins",
pages = "181--206",
editor = "Elma Blom and Cornips, \{Leonie \} and Schaeffer, \{Jeannette \}",
booktitle = "Crosslinguistic Influencein Bilingualism",
address = "Netherlands",
}