The role of language dominance in cross-linguistic syntactic influence: A Korean child's use of null subjects in attriting English
- Authors
- Kang, Sang-Gu
- Issue Date
- 1월-2013
- Publisher
- CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
- Keywords
- attrition; cross-linguistic influence; English null subject; language dominance; syntactic transfer
- Citation
- BILINGUALISM-LANGUAGE AND COGNITION, v.16, no.1, pp.219 - 230
- Indexed
- SSCI
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- BILINGUALISM-LANGUAGE AND COGNITION
- Volume
- 16
- Number
- 1
- Start Page
- 219
- End Page
- 230
- URI
- https://scholar.korea.ac.kr/handle/2021.sw.korea/104341
- DOI
- 10.1017/S1366728912000545
- ISSN
- 1366-7289
- Abstract
- While Hulk and Muller (2000) predict that the direction of cross-linguistic syntactic influence is unidirectional when the construction involves syntax-pragmatics interface and surface overlap between two languages, they explicitly rule out language dominance as a factor involved. This study questions their latter claim and argues that the syntax of the dominant language can influence that of the weaker, based on a Korean-English bilingual boy's attriting English data; Korean null subjects triggered English subject drop when his Korean became more dominant. Thus, I propose a revised model of cross-linguistic influence that accounts for both Hulk and Muller's proposal and my data.
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