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Title: | Spoken and Written Representation of Number in L2 Catalan Indefinite Determiner Phrases |
Author: | Tolchinsky, Liliana Salas, Naymé Perera i Parramon, Joan |
Keywords: | Adquisició d'una segona llengua Català Migrants Second language acquisition Catalan language Migrants |
Issue Date: | 2007 |
Publisher: | North American Catalan Society |
Abstract: | The study explores the relationship that second language (L2) learners of Catalan establish between the spoken and the written representation of number inflection within an indefinite-article Determiner Phrase (DP); and it also addresses first language (LI) influence in this processo Five- to eight-year-olds, speakers of varieties of Chinese and Moroccan Arabic, with differing degrees of literacy instruction in their home countries -but similar time of residence in Catalonia- participated in the study. The children carried out individual semi-structured tasks designed to evaluate comprehension and production of changes in number inflectÏons (un cotxe 'a car'; uns cotxes 'a-pl cars '). Results showed that, irrespective of children's language background, comprehension preceded production of singular and plural indefinite-article DPs; spoken representatÏon was easier than written representation of number changes; and production of plural indefinite-article DPs was more difficult than its singular counterpart. Despite rypological differences between the languages compared, both groups of L2 learners, even the Catalan control group, underwent similar processes. |
Note: | Reproducció del document publicat a: https://www.raco.cat/index.php/CatalanReview/article/view/310127 |
It is part of: | Catalan Review. International Journal of Catalan Culture, 2007, vol. 21, num. 1, p. 321-350 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2445/147346 |
ISSN: | 0213-5949 |
Appears in Collections: | Articles publicats en revistes (Filologia Catalana i Lingüística General) |
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