Affiliation:
1. University of Southampton | NTNU The Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Abstract
This chapter discusses multilingual and probes the question of whether they form a shared linguistic system. Recent psycholinguistic and studies of multilingual individuals suggest that this is indeed the case. Taking Minimalist morphosyntax and Lardiere’s (2009) feature reassembly as starting points, we consider whether a can be updated and re-assembled as a complete unit in the third language, or whether it has to be broken down into separate which are updated separately. The latter option makes sure that features from both known languages, if they are acquired to a functional level, can exert (CLI). Restructuring each feature bundle depends not just on the availability of facilitation, but on other properties of the which affect what becomes in the additional grammar. Both experiential factors (such as dominance and proficiency) and linguistic factors (such as frequency in the input and complexity) can and do affect the acquisition process.
Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
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3 articles.
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