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Publication details [#66503]

Kutsuki, Aya. 2019. The combination of words in compound nouns by Spanish-Japanese bilingual children: Transfers in unambiguous structure. International Journal of Bilingualism 23 (1) : 256–274.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
bilingualism | language acquisition | language transfer | nominal compound | pre-school age | word order
Language as a subject
Japanese | Spanish
Place, Publisher
SAGE Publications
Journal WWW
journals.sagepub.com/home/ijb

Annotation

This inquiry tests the ambiguity and dominance theories of transfer by exploring compound noun production and comprehension by bilinguals learning Spanish and Japanese, as the word order of nominal compounds in these languages is always reversed, making them grammatically and theoretically unambiguous.