LINGUIST List 21.2749

Tue Jun 29 2010

Books: Psycholinguistics: Flecken

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        1.    Mariëtte Bonenkamp, Event conceptualization in language production of early bilinguals: Flecken

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Message 1: Event conceptualization in language production of early bilinguals: Flecken
Date: 15-Jun-2010
From: Mariëtte Bonenkamp <lotuu.nl>
Subject: Event conceptualization in language production of early bilinguals: Flecken
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Title: Event conceptualization in language production of early
bilinguals Series Title: LOT Dissertation Series Published: 2010 Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke - LOT
                http://www.lotpublications.nl/

Author: Monique Flecken Paperback: ISBN: 9789460930386 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 28.32
Abstract:

Although a great percentage of the present day population speaks more thanone language, a smaller number are early bilinguals, in the sense that theyare speakers who have grown up with two languages since childhood. Thepresent thesis on early Dutch-German bilinguals addresses the question as towhat it means to be such a speaker. It presents insights gained by languageproduction experiments into conceptualization processes during language useby Dutch-German bilinguals, with a specific focus on cross-linguisticdifferences between the two languages.

The findings show that in the domain of event construal, the bilinguals adhereto principles that differ subtly from those of 'monolingua'' speakers of bothlanguages. To be more specific, the acquisition of two patterns of 'Thinkingand Seeing for Speaking' (cf. Slobin, 1996; von Stutterheim & Nüse, 2003)results in bilingual-specific performance patterns in language production thatreveal bilingual-specific language processing mechanisms. The findings arediscussed in light of conceptualization preferences that indicate a reliance oncore linguistic principles that overlap between Dutch and German, coupledwith a reliance on basic, simplification strategies. The studies collected inthis thesis make use of several psycholinguistic research methods whichfurther support the results of the production studies, i.e. eye trackingmeasurements,acceptability judgements and an experiment involvingprocessing constraints.

Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition                             Psycholinguistics
Subject Language(s): Dutch (nld)                             German, Standard (deu)
Written In: English (eng )

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