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Languages, Volume 9, Issue 4
April 2024 - 37 articles
Cover Story: We examine whether a crosslinguistic influence (CLI) is exerted on the referring expressions of the spoken narratives of Japanese–English bilingual children. A total of 13 school-age early bilinguals separately presented Japanese and English narratives for a wordless picture book and a speechless video clip. The linguistic devices the children adopted to introduce, reintroduce, and maintain the topic were compared with those of their monolingual controls. We detect CLI for English on Japanese but not vice-versa, and further demonstrate that CLI is more likely to manifest in the reintroduction context, which requires the integration of much pragmatic information. We offer additional evidence for the interface and structural overlap hypothesis, further highlighting the criticality of considering information structure as an influencing condition. View this paper
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