Chapter published in:
The Acquisition of Differential Object MarkingEdited by Alexandru Mardale and Silvina Montrul
[Trends in Language Acquisition Research 26] 2020
► pp. 77–104
Chapter 3Differential Object Marking in simultaneous Hungarian-Romanian
bilinguals
Larisa Avram | University of Bucharest
Veronica Tomescu | University of Bucharest
This study charts the acquisition of Differential Object Marking
(DOM) in Romanian by Hungarian-Romanian simultaneous bilinguals (2L1). The
main finding is that these 2L1 children acquire the properties of the DOM
system similarly to monolinguals, with only one difference deriving from
descriptive DPs, with which marking is constrained by discourse-pragmatics.
During the early stages, the 2L1 children inconsistently mark these DPs in
comparison with age-matched monolinguals. Data from ‘frog story’ narratives
of 4-year-old bilinguals reveal an increase in DOM use with these DPs. The
results show that the vulnerability is selective and that it is overcome
early. We explain our findings with reference to the syntax of DOM in
Romanian and positive cross-linguistic influence from Hungarian.
Keywords: Romanian, Hungarian, simultaneous bilingual children, selective vulnerability, Differential Object Marking
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Previous studies on DOM in 2L1
- 3.DOM in Romanian bilingual acquisition
- 3.1DOM in Romanian
- 3.2DOM in Hungarian?
- 3.3Predictions for DOM in 2L1 Romanian in a Hungarian-Romanian context
- 4.The study
- 4.1Main questions
- 4.2Longitudinal study
- 4.2.1Corpus and methodology
- 4.2.2Results
- 4.2.3DOM in child-directed speech
- 4.2.4Interim conclusions
- 4.3DOM in narrative
- 4.3.1Aim
- 4.3.2Corpus and methodology
- 4.3.3Results
- 4.4Discussion
- 5.Conclusion
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Notes -
References
Published online: 18 June 2020
https://doi.org/10.1075/tilar.26.03avr
https://doi.org/10.1075/tilar.26.03avr
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