The Role of Age of Exposure to English in the Development of Arabic as a Heritage Language in the United States
| Autor: | Abdulkafi Albirini |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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060201 languages & linguistics
Linguistics and Language Grammar media_common.quotation_subject First language Native-language instruction 06 humanities and the arts Semitic languages Language acquisition Language and Linguistics Linguistics Education Heritage language 0602 languages and literature Psychology Neuroscience of multilingualism Plural media_common |
| Zdroj: | Language Acquisition. 25:178-196 |
| ISSN: | 1532-7817 1048-9223 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/10489223.2016.1234620 |
| Popis: | This study examined two common accounts of heritage speakers’ nonnative attainment in their heritage/first language (L1), one attributing it to the influence of the second language (L2) and another to insufficient L1 input. Three groups of children who were heritage speakers of Arabic and who varied in their age of L2 exposure and type and amount of L1 input (n = 31) were compared to monolingual Arabic-speaking children (n = 12).The participants completed three oral tasks targeting subject-verb agreement, plural morphology, and relative clauses. The findings revealed significant differences among the groups, except between the monolingual group and the group of heritage speakers that had not been exposed to English at the time of the study. Although both L2 exposure and L1 input correlated positively with the children’s overall accuracy, age of L2 exposure was the only significant predictor of accuracy. The disparity in the groups’ performance was also explained by the properties of the linguistic... |
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