TY - JOUR
T1 - Bidirectional cross-linguistic influence in Cantonese-English bilingual children
T2 - The case of right-dislocation
AU - Ge, Haoyan
AU - Matthews, Stephen
AU - Yam-Leung Cheung, Lawrence
AU - Yip, Virginia
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2017.
PY - 2017/6
Y1 - 2017/6
N2 - This corpus-based study demonstrates a case of bidirectional cross-linguistic influence in the acquisition of right-dislocation by Cantonese-English bilingual children and interprets the results in relation to Hulk and Müller's hypothesis for cross-linguistic influence. Longitudinal data reveal qualitative and quantitative differences between bilingual and monolingual children in the development of right-dislocation in English and Cantonese. While right-dislocation lies at the syntax-pragmatics interface, both delay and acceleration are observed in bilingual development. The article's findings in general support Hulk and Müller's hypothesis for cross-linguistic influence in bilingual first language acquisition, but the bidirectional influence observed is not predicted by their formulation of the hypothesis. Moreover, the results suggest that language dominance may influence the directionality of cross-linguistic influence.
AB - This corpus-based study demonstrates a case of bidirectional cross-linguistic influence in the acquisition of right-dislocation by Cantonese-English bilingual children and interprets the results in relation to Hulk and Müller's hypothesis for cross-linguistic influence. Longitudinal data reveal qualitative and quantitative differences between bilingual and monolingual children in the development of right-dislocation in English and Cantonese. While right-dislocation lies at the syntax-pragmatics interface, both delay and acceleration are observed in bilingual development. The article's findings in general support Hulk and Müller's hypothesis for cross-linguistic influence in bilingual first language acquisition, but the bidirectional influence observed is not predicted by their formulation of the hypothesis. Moreover, the results suggest that language dominance may influence the directionality of cross-linguistic influence.
KW - Cantonese-English bilingual children
KW - Cross-linguistic influence
KW - Language dominance
KW - Right-dislocation
KW - Syntax-pragmatics interface
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85021625919&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/0142723716687955
DO - 10.1177/0142723716687955
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85021625919
SN - 0142-7237
VL - 37
SP - 231
EP - 251
JO - First Language
JF - First Language
IS - 3
ER -