L3 morphosyntactic processing among Polish–English bilinguals: Considering learners’ level of bilingualism and language dominance-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

L3 morphosyntactic processing among Polish–English bilinguals: Considering learners’ level of bilingualism and language dominance

Published:2021-01-01 Issue:1 Volume:7 Page:353-371
ISSN:2300-9969
Container-title:Open Linguistics
language:en
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Author:

Marciszewska Agnieszka A¹^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. CILT, SOAS , 10 Thornhaugh St, Bloomsbury , London WC1H 0XG , United Kingdom

Abstract

Abstract Investigating language practices of bilingual children and understanding how they process a novel L3 allow to contribute to epistemological debates on bilingualism. In the present study, Polish–English bilingual children were tested on their processing of subject-first (SVO) and object-first (OVS) sentences in Polish and German. The data collected in this exploratory study were analysed in light of learners’ different levels of bilingualism and language dominance. The results consistently indicate that higher proficiency in Polish as well as ability to process the challenging OVS sentences supports learners in processing L3 German as well. The findings provide useful insights on morphosyntactic processing abilities among both migrant and bilingual 2L1 children and shine light on their needs, which could further be used to inform educational policy in the UK.

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Subject

Linguistics and Language,Language and Linguistics

Link

https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/opli-2021-0015/pdf

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