Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/1843/58294
Type: Artigo de Periódico
Title: Bilingual innovations: Experimental evidence offers clues regarding the psycholinguistics of language change
Authors: Eva M.fernández
Ricardo Augusto de Souza
Agustina Carando
Abstract: Sustained interaction between a bilingual's two languages can be a first step toward diachronic language change. We describe two investigations that explore this by examining how bilinguals process innovative syntactic structures in their first language. In the first investigation, a sentence recall/sentence matching task, bilinguals and monolinguals exhibited differences in their tolerance of expressions of induced motion, which vary in acceptability between the two languages (Portuguese and English). In the second investigation, a priming methodology was employed to induce bilinguals to produce in their first language (Spanish) innovative constructions modeled on the second language (English), using materials where the alternation is shared between the two languages (voice, reciprocal) or not (dative). The two investigations provide a window into how languages interact in bilinguals, inducing tolerance of ungrammaticality which, we will argue, could lead to long-term novel representations in the linguistic competence repositories.
Subject: Bilinguismo
Aquisição da segunda linguagem
Psicolinguística
language: eng
metadata.dc.publisher.country: Brasil
Publisher: Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Publisher Initials: UFMG
metadata.dc.publisher.department: FALE - FACULDADE DE LETRAS
Rights: Acesso Restrito
metadata.dc.identifier.doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728916000924
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1843/58294
Issue Date: 2017
metadata.dc.relation.ispartof: Bilingualism: Language and Cognition
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