The roles of Language mode and dominance in French-German bilinguals’ motion event descriptions
- Stocker, Ladina University of Fribourg
- Berthele, Raphael University of Fribourg
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28.05.2019
Published in:
- Bilingualism: Language and Cognition. - 2019, p. 1-13
English
Juggling with structurally and semantically different language systems leads to constructions that differ from the typical patterns in a language. Typical patterns in the domain of motion are characterized by more verbs encoding path in French; and more verbs encoding the manner of motion in German. An increase of manner verbs in French, for instance, can be ascribed to an influence from German. The extent of typical or reversed patterns depends on interrelated factors such as speaker-related idiosyncrasies, language dominance configurations, and – arguably – the degree of language activation. Drawing on data from 154 French-German bilinguals who described motion events in different language modes, this paper combines interrelated questions on the role of language dominance, language mode manipulation and how these factors interact. Quantitative analyses on the use of motion verbs do not show the expected effects. The null results are discussed by comparing preceding studies showing contradictory findings.
- Faculty
- Faculté des lettres et des sciences humaines
- Department
- Département de plurilinguisme et didactique des langues étrangères
- Language
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- English
- Classification
- Language, linguistics
- License
- License undefined
- Identifiers
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- RERO DOC 327109
- DOI 10.1017/S1366728919000294
- Persistent URL
- https://folia.unifr.ch/unifr/documents/308250
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