dc.contributor.author | Caffarra, Sendy | |
dc.contributor.author | Zimnukhova, Svetlana | |
dc.contributor.author | Mancini, Simona | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-03-10T09:53:40Z | |
dc.date.available | 2017-03-10T09:53:40Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2016 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Caffarra, S., Zimnukhova, S. & Mancini, S. (2016). What usage can do: The effect of language dominance on simultaneous bilinguals’ morphosyntactic processing . Linguistics Vanguard, 2(s1), pp. 43-53. Doi:10.1515/lingvan-2016-0020 | es |
dc.identifier.issn | 2199-174X | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10810/20907 | |
dc.description | Published Online: 2016-08-27 | es |
dc.description.abstract | Even when bilinguals learn both languages from birth and achieve high levels of proficiency, they
rarely use their languages to the same degree. Recent findings suggest that individual differences in bilingual
profile such as the usage of the bilingual’s different languages could affect the way they retrieve and analyse
linguistic information, with greater use of linguistic mechanisms from the dominant language. One of the
linguistic areas where a wide variety of bilingual performance has been reported is morphosyntax. The present
study tests whether language usage can account for a certain amount of the individual variability in morphosyntactic
feature extraction. Basque-Spanish simultaneous bilinguals with a range of language dominance
profiles were asked to judge the grammatical gender of Spanish nouns the ending of which could provide a
reliable cue to gender (i. e., transparent) or not (i. e., opaque). Results showed that the more bilinguals used
Basque (i. e., an agglutinative language) on a daily basis, the faster they were at detecting the presence of
transparent morphemes relative to opaque nouns. These findings suggest that simultaneous bilinguals have
different ways of retrieving grammatical gender depending on their language profile. Language usage can
contribute to explaining the presence of individual differences in morphosyntactic feature retrieval. | es |
dc.description.sponsorship | SC was funded by ATheME grant FP7-SSH-2013-1-GA613465, a grant from the Spanish Ministry PSI 2014-54500-P and a grant from the Basque Government PI_2015_1_25. SM was founded by the Gipuzkoa Fellowship Program and a grant from the Basque Government PI_2014_1_38. SC and SM were funded by the Severo Ochoa program grant SEV-2015-049. | es |
dc.language.iso | eng | es |
dc.publisher | Linguistics Vanguard | es |
dc.relation | info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/SFP7/FP-SSH-2013-1/613465 | |
dc.relation | info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MINECO/PSI2014-54500-P | |
dc.relation | info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/MINECO/SEV-2015-0490 | |
dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | es |
dc.subject | individual differences | es |
dc.subject | simultaneous bilinguals | es |
dc.subject | Interdependent Development Hypothesis | es |
dc.subject | grammatical gender | es |
dc.subject | PsychLingVar | es |
dc.title | What usage can do: The effect of language dominance on simultaneous bilinguals’ morphosyntactic processing | es |
dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/article | es |
dc.rights.holder | © 2011–2017 by Walter de Gruyter GmbH | es |
dc.relation.publisherversion | https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/lingvan.2016.2.issue-1/issue-files/lingvan.2016.2.issue-1.xml | es |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1515/lingvan-2016-0020 | |