Projects per year
Abstract
This study examined the linguistic and individual-level factors that render casemarking a vulnerable domain in English-dominant Greek heritage children. We alsoinvestigated whether heritage language (HL) children can use case marking cues tointerpret (non-)canonical sentences in Greek similarly to their monolingual peers. Agroup of 6- to 12-year-old Greek heritage children in New York City and a control group of age-matched monolingual children living in Greece participated in a production and a picture verification task targeting case marking and (non-)canonica lword order in Greek. HL children produced syncretic inflectional errors, also found in preschool monolingual children. In the comprehension task, HL children show edvariable performance on the non-canonical OVS but ceiling performance on the SVO conditions, which suggests influence from English. Linguistic factors such as case transparency affected comprehension, whereas child-level factors such as proficiency and degree of (early) use of Greek influenced performance on both modalities
Original language | English |
---|---|
Pages (from-to) | 766 - 795 |
Journal | Journal of Child Language |
Volume | 47 |
Issue number | 4 |
Early online date | 8 Jan 2020 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Jul 2020 |
Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)
- heritage language children
- bilingual children
- Greek
- case
- word order
Fingerprint
Dive into the research topics of 'Case and word order in Greek heritage children'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.Projects
- 1 Finished
-
Advanced Research Collaborative (ARC) - Visiting Fellowship
25/08/16 → 29/01/17
Project: Research Collaboration with external organisation
Research output
- 1 Article
-
Effects of parental input quality on child heritage language acquisition
Daskalaki, E., Blom, E., Chondrogianni, V. & Paradis, J., 15 Jan 2020, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of Child Language. 28 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open AccessFile
Activities
- 1 Invited talk
-
Under pressure: comprehension and production of non-canonical word order in heritage language acquisition
Vicky Chondrogianni (Invited speaker)
23 Mar 2021Activity: Academic talk or presentation types › Invited talk
Profiles
-
Vicky Chondrogianni
- School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences - Personal Chair of Bilingualism and Language Development
Person: Academic: Research Active