Indirect structural crosslinguistic influence in early Catalan–Spanish bilinguals in adulthood: predicate selection in Catalan existential constructions
Publication date
2021-11ISSN
0142-7164
Abstract
This study reports an oral production experiment investigating the expression of existentiality in the Catalan of adult Catalan–Spanish early bilinguals (N = 58) with comparable proficiencies but different language dominance. The results show qualitative differences among the bilinguals in existential predicate selection and in their supply of partitive pronouns, modulated by language dominance. Balanced Bilinguals as well as Spanish-dominant bilinguals significantly produced more estar (in detriment of ser-hi and haver-hi) not only in locative contexts, where Catalan already presents optionality regulated by semantic differences, but also in existential constructions, where this optionality does not exist. We argue for indirect crosslinguistic influence (CLI), when the bilingual perceives certain structural overlap within constructions, mediating the influence from one structure to another one and expanding the limits of CLI. The qualitative differences found among bilinguals challenge the idea of a bilingualism continuum in Catalan–Spanish bilingualism with an identical mental representation.
Document Type
Article
Document version
Published version
Language
English
Subject (CDU)
8 - language. Linguistics. Literature
81 - Linguistics and languages
Keywords
Influència multilingüística
Català
Bilingüisme
Oracions existencials
Clítics partitius
Dominació lingüística
Influencia multilingüe
Catalán
Bilingüismo
Oraciones existenciales
Clíticos partitivos
Dominación lingüística
Crosslinguistic influence
Catalan
Bilingualism
Existential sentences
Partitive clitics
Language
Dominance
Pages
40
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Collection
42; 6
Is part of
Applied Psycholinguistics
Citation
Perpiñán, Silvia; Soto-Corominas, Adriana. Indirect structural crosslinguistic influence in early Catalan–Spanish bilinguals in adulthood: predicate selection in Catalan existential constructions. Applied Psycholinguistics, 2021, 42(6), p. 1463–1502. Disponible en: <https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/applied-psycholinguistics/article/indirect-structural-crosslinguistic-influence-in-early-catalanspanish-bilinguals-in-adulthood-predicate-selection-in-catalan-existential-constructions/E7FD552AEAA59049C25A2D8BD2D3B1DD>. Fecha de acceso: 19 oct. 2021. DOI: 10.1017/S0142716421000308
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