The present study compares (1) monolingual English vs. French adults and children and (2) simultaneous French-English bilingual children who describe caused motion events. The results concerning L1 speakers showed developmental progressions in both languages, e.g., utterance complexity increases with age. However, response patterns differed considerably across languages in that responses were denser and more compact in English than in French. The results concerning bilingual children showed unidirectional crosslinguistic interactions. Responses elicited in English paralleled monolingual developmental patterns, whereas bilinguals’ French productions differed from those of monolingual French peers. The findings suggest that bilingual children transfer lexicalisation patterns from one of their languages to the other when the former provides more transparent means of achieving high semantic density.
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Engemann, Helen
2022. How (not) to cross a boundary: Crosslinguistic influence in simultaneous bilingual children's event construal. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 25:1 ► pp. 42 ff.
Koch, Nikolas & Katharina Günther
2021. Transfer Phenomena in Bilingual Language Acquisition: The Case of Caused-Motion Constructions. Languages 6:1 ► pp. 25 ff.
Madlener, Karin, Katrin Skoruppa & Heike Behrens
2017. Gradual development of constructional complexity in German spatial language. Cognitive Linguistics 28:4
Madlener-Charpentier, Karin & Elsa Liste Lamas
2022. Path Under Construction: Challenges Beyond S-Framed Motion Event Construal in L2 German. Frontiers in Communication 7
Palaniyappan, Lena
2021. More than a biomarker: could language be a biosocial marker of psychosis?. npj Schizophrenia 7:1
Wang, Yi & Li Wei
2021. Cognitive restructuring in the multilingual mind: language-specific effects on processing efficiency of caused motion events in Cantonese–English–Japanese speakers. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 24:4 ► pp. 730 ff.
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