Transfer at the syntax-pragmatics interface: Pronominal subjects in bilingual Turkish

This study investigates the issue of crosslinguistic influence in the domain of subject realization in Turkish in simultaneous acquisition of Turkish and English. The use of subjects in a null subject language like Turkish is a phenomenon linked to the pragmatics-syntax interface of the grammar and,...

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Published in:Second language research Vol. 26; no. 3; pp. 355 - 378
Main Author: Haznedar, Belma
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: London, England SAGE Publications 01.07.2010
Sage Publications Ltd
Subjects:
Acquisition
Bilingualism
Children
Children & youth
Coding
Cognition & reasoning
Comparative Analysis
English
English language
Evidence
First language acquisition
Form Classes (Languages)
Grammar
Grammatical subject
Hypotheses
Interference (Language)
Language
Language Acquisition
Language development
Language Research
Learning transfer
Linguistic Borrowing
Linguistic Interference
Linguistics
Monolingualism
Native language acquisition
Pragmatics
Pro Drop Parameter
Pronouns
Romance Languages
Second Language Learning
Second Languages
Semiotics
Speaking
Speech
Spontaneous speech
Structural Analysis (Linguistics)
Structural Analysis (Science)
Studies
Syntactics
Syntax
Syntax semantics relationship
Transfer of Training
Turkish
Turkish language
Verbs
cross-linguistic influence
subject realization in English and Turkish
syntax—pragmatics interface
transfer
pronominal subjects
simultaneous bilingualism
ISSN:0267-6583, 1477-0326
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Summary:This study investigates the issue of crosslinguistic influence in the domain of subject realization in Turkish in simultaneous acquisition of Turkish and English. The use of subjects in a null subject language like Turkish is a phenomenon linked to the pragmatics-syntax interface of the grammar and, thus, is a domain where crosslinguistic interference is predicted to occur in bilingual acquisition (Hulk and Müller, 2000; Müller and Hulk, 2001). Spontaneous Turkish data collected from one Turkish-English bilingual child, Ali-John, and one Turkish monolingual child, Murat, are compared. Our results reveal that Al¡-John's production of overt subjects in Turkish is more than that of the control child. These findings could be interpreted as due to crosslinguistic influence from English regarding the suppliance of overt subjects in the context of Turkish-English bilingual acquisition.
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ISSN:0267-6583
1477-0326
DOI:10.1177/0267658310365780