Publications

Publication details [#55520]

Malt, Barbara C. and Aneta Pavlenko. 2011. Kitchen Russian: Cross-linguistic differences and first-language object naming by Russian–English bilinguals. Bilingualism 14 (1) : 19–45.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

age | L2-acquisition | language proficiency | language transfer | naming1

Language as a subject

English | Russian

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This study demonstrates that L1 word use in Russian–English bilinguals is alive to L2 influence even for concrete nouns addressing familiar objects, and the shift's nature for a given word is affected by various factors (e.g. L1 proficiency, age of L2 acquisition, L2 proficiency)