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Research paper thumbnail of Left-behind experience and language proficiency predict narrative abilities in the home language of Kam-speaking minority children in China

Frontiers in Psychology

IntroductionStudies have documented that child experiences such as external/environmental factors... more IntroductionStudies have documented that child experiences such as external/environmental factors as well as internal factors jointly affect acquisition outcomes in child language. Thus far, the findings have been heavily skewed toward Indo-European languages and children in the Western, educated, industrialized, rich and democratic (WEIRD) societies. By contrast, this study features an understudied minority language Kam, and a group of so-called left-behind children in China growing up in a unique social-communicative environment.MethodsFifty-five bilingual children aged 5–9 acquiring Kam as home language were assessed using the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (LITMUS MAIN). Twenty-three “two parents-left” children (mean age = 6;8, range: 5;0–9;2) remained in rural areas while both parents went to cities for employment, and they were raised by their grandparents. Thirty-two were “one parent-left” peers (mean age = 7;3, range: 5;0–9;3) who also resided in rural are...

Research paper thumbnail of Case marking is different in monolingual and heritage Bosnian in digitally elicited oral texts

Frontiers in Psychology

Heritage languages may differ from baseline languages spoken in the home country, particularly in... more Heritage languages may differ from baseline languages spoken in the home country, particularly in the domains of vocabulary, morphosyntax and phonology. The success of acquiring and maintaining a heritage language may depend on a range of factors, from the age of acquisition of the second language; quantity and quality of input and frequency of first language use, to non-linguistic factors, such as Socio-Economic Status (SES). To investigate case marking accuracy in heritage Bosnian in relation to these very factors, we recruited 20 heritage Bosnian speakers in Austria and Germany, and 20 monolingual Bosnian speakers in Bosnia, aged between 18 and 30 years. Participants were assessed remotely in two sessions, on a battery of tests that included a background language questionnaire investigating participants’ history of language acquisition, current usage and SES, and a newly adapted Bosnian version of the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (MAIN). A significant differe...

Research paper thumbnail of Bilingual Acquisition of Language and Literacy: State of the Art and Beyond

Journal of Home Language Research

Research paper thumbnail of Tagalog adaptation of the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives: History, process and preliminary results

ZAS Papers in Linguistics

This paper briefly presents the current situation of bilingualism in the Philippines, specificall... more This paper briefly presents the current situation of bilingualism in the Philippines, specifically that of Tagalog-English bilingualism. More importantly, it describes the process of adapting the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (LITMUS- MAIN) to Tagalog, the basis of Filipino, which is the country’s national language. Finally, the results of a pilot study conducted on Tagalog-English bilingual children and adults (N=27) are presented. The results showed that Story Structure is similar across the two languages and that it develops significantly with age.

Research paper thumbnail of Processing of pronoun gender by Dutch-Russian simultaneous bilinguals

Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 2020

Research paper thumbnail of Developing narrative comprehension : multilingual assessment instrument for narratives

John Benjamins eBooks, 2020

Research paper thumbnail of Narrative texts by children and adults

within the framework of their bachelor, master, or PhD theses supervised by Natalia Gagarina duri... more within the framework of their bachelor, master, or PhD theses supervised by Natalia Gagarina during the last years. From the pool of student theses, those that had produced the most interesting results were selected to be published in the present issue. While the results are worth publishing, the reader should be aware that these papers were written by students, and, while suitable for this working papers' journal, may not live up to the standards of peerreviewed journals. In many cases, the paper represents the student's first experience with writing a journal paper. The editors have not corrected and substantially improved upon the way the papers are written. The primary topic of this issue is narrative ability. Narrative ability is a central part of language use, and a child's use of narrative language influences later success at school as it provides a bridge between oral and written language (e.g. Dickinson & Tabors, 2001). Different theoretical frameworks exist that describe the structural organisation of narrative texts, for example story grammar (Stein & Glenn, 1979) and such frameworks have been used to study children's narratives. However, there is still a need to better understand the mechanisms of the acquisition of narrative ability and to apply and further develop the theories which explain the organisation of narrative texts.

Research paper thumbnail of Studies on the development of grammar in German, Russian and Bulgarian

The papers of this 33th volume of the ZAS Papers in Linguistics present intermediate results of t... more The papers of this 33th volume of the ZAS Papers in Linguistics present intermediate results of the ZAS-project on language acquisition. Currently we deal with the question of which functions children assign to the first grammatical forms they use productively. The goal is to identify grammatical features comprising the child's early grammar. This issue is investigated within the analyses of longitudinal data (cf. the papers of Gagarina/Bittner, Gagarina, Kühnast/Popova/Popov, Bewer) as well as within experimental research (see the papers of Bittner, Kühnast/Popova/Popov). The main topic of this volume is the acquisition of definite articles and verbal aspect. Bewer – who has worked as a student assistant in the project for a long time and wrote her MA-thesis on the topic of the project – investigates children's acquisition of gender features in German. Kühnast/Popova/Popov discuss the correlations between the acquisition of definite articles and verbal aspect in Bulgarian. ...

Research paper thumbnail of Heritage Speakers as Part of the Native Language Continuum

Frontiers in Psychology, 2022

We argue for a perspective on bilingual heritage speakers as native speakers of both their langua... more We argue for a perspective on bilingual heritage speakers as native speakers of both their languages and present results from a large-scale, cross-linguistic study that took such a perspective and approached bilinguals and monolinguals on equal grounds. We targeted comparable language use in bilingual and monolingual speakers, crucially covering broader repertoires than just formal language. A main database was the open-access RUEG corpus, which covers comparable informal vs. formal and spoken vs. written productions by adolescent and adult bilinguals with heritage-Greek, -Russian, and -Turkish in Germany and the United States and with heritage-German in the United States, and matching data from monolinguals in Germany, the United States, Greece, Russia, and Turkey. Our main results lie in three areas. (1) We found non-canonical patterns not only in bilingual, but also in monolingual speakers, including patterns that have so far been considered absent from native grammars, in domain...

Research paper thumbnail of Bilingual RussGermZAS Corpus

Research paper thumbnail of Grammatical Development Within a Context of Early Bilingual Education and Language Support Programs

Handbook of Early Language Education, 2021

Research paper thumbnail of 9. Acquisition of additive connectives by Russian-German bilinguals: A usage-based approach

Usage-Based Approaches to Language Acquisition and Language Teaching, 2017

Research paper thumbnail of Intersentential pronominal reference in child and adult language

ZAS Papers in Linguistics, 2007

The 48th volume of the ZAS Papers in Linguistics presents selected papers from the conference on ... more The 48th volume of the ZAS Papers in Linguistics presents selected papers from the conference on Intersentential pronominal reference in child and adult language held at the ZAS in December, 2006. The conference, organized by the project Acquisition and disambiguation of intersentential pronominal reference, brought together leading researchers dealing with anaphora resolution in diverse theoretical approaches and the acquisition perspective on pronominal reference taken by the ZAS project.

Research paper thumbnail of Non-verbal visual working memory predicts narrative comprehension in bilingual, but not monolingual children - is this a bilingual effect?

Research paper thumbnail of An Acquisitional Perspective

This study discusses the acquisition of verbs of motion and their grammatical categories. In part... more This study discusses the acquisition of verbs of motion and their grammatical categories. In particular, it investigates how language-specific peculiarities of Russian verbs of motion influence acquisition of these verbs by young Russian-speaking children. The results indicate variation in the timing and path of the acquisition of uni- vs. multidirectional verbs. It is proposed that these differences in the acquisition of verbs of motion can be traced to variations in their semantics and in the paradigm patterning, as well as in their frequency and contexts of use. Additionally, the pedagogical implications and the possible relevance of these findings based on first language acquisition to the acquisitional strategies of adult learners are discussed.

Research paper thumbnail of Research data supporting "Cross-linguistic patterns in the acquisition of quantifiers

Response_Data.csv: Participant responses ('correct' or 'incorrect') to sentences ... more Response_Data.csv: Participant responses ('correct' or 'incorrect') to sentences with quantifiers ('all', 'none', 'some', 'some...not', 'most') in 31 languages presented in the context of different visual displays. Item_Coding.csv: How sentences with quantifiers ('all', 'none', 'some', 'some...not', 'most') were coded.

Research paper thumbnail of Mehrsprachigkeit unter besonderen Bedingungen

Sprache · Stimme · Gehör, 2018

Research paper thumbnail of On the Typology of Inflection Class Systems

Folia Linguistica, 2006

Infl ectional classes are a property of the ideal infl ecting-fusional language type. Thus strong... more Infl ectional classes are a property of the ideal infl ecting-fusional language type. Thus strongly infl ecting languages have the most complex vertical and horizontal stratifi cation of hierarchical tree structures. Weakly infl ecting languages which also approach the ideal isolating type or languages which also approach the agglutinating type have much shallower structures. Such properties follow from principles of Natural Morphology and from the distinction of the descendent hierarchy of macroclasses, classes, subclasses, subsubclasses etc. and homogeneous microclasses. The main languages of illustration are Latin, Lithuanian, Russian, German, French, Finnish, Hungarian and Turkish.

Research paper thumbnail of On the role of morphological richness in the early development of noun and verb inflection

First Language, 2011

This study proposes a new methodology for determining the relationship between child-directed spe... more This study proposes a new methodology for determining the relationship between child-directed speech and child speech in early acquisition. It illustrates the use of this methodology in investigating the relationship between the morphological richness of child-directed speech and the speed of morphological development in child speech. Both variables are defined in terms of mean size of paradigm (MSP) and estimated in a set of longitudinal spontaneous speech corpora of nine children and their caretakers. The children are aged 1;3–3;0, acquiring nine different languages that vary in terms of morphological richness. The main result is that the degree of morphological richness in child-directed speech is positively related to the speed of development of noun and verb paradigms in child speech.

Research paper thumbnail of Reduplication in child language

Studies on Reduplication

... 456 Wolfgang Dressler et al German: Katharina (Kathi), single child, female, Vienna: 1; 6-3; ... more ... 456 Wolfgang Dressler et al German: Katharina (Kathi), single child, female, Vienna: 1; 6-3; 0 Jan, second child, male, Vienna: 1; 3-2 ... girafe'giraffe',/zedEt/= serviette'napkin', Polish: Zosia 1; 7: pube= spodnie'trousers', 1; 8: pama= pana'Mr.' (Gen.-Acc.),\; 9: pami= pani'Mrs.'. Note ...

Research paper thumbnail of Left-behind experience and language proficiency predict narrative abilities in the home language of Kam-speaking minority children in China

Frontiers in Psychology

IntroductionStudies have documented that child experiences such as external/environmental factors... more IntroductionStudies have documented that child experiences such as external/environmental factors as well as internal factors jointly affect acquisition outcomes in child language. Thus far, the findings have been heavily skewed toward Indo-European languages and children in the Western, educated, industrialized, rich and democratic (WEIRD) societies. By contrast, this study features an understudied minority language Kam, and a group of so-called left-behind children in China growing up in a unique social-communicative environment.MethodsFifty-five bilingual children aged 5–9 acquiring Kam as home language were assessed using the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (LITMUS MAIN). Twenty-three “two parents-left” children (mean age = 6;8, range: 5;0–9;2) remained in rural areas while both parents went to cities for employment, and they were raised by their grandparents. Thirty-two were “one parent-left” peers (mean age = 7;3, range: 5;0–9;3) who also resided in rural are...

Research paper thumbnail of Case marking is different in monolingual and heritage Bosnian in digitally elicited oral texts

Frontiers in Psychology

Heritage languages may differ from baseline languages spoken in the home country, particularly in... more Heritage languages may differ from baseline languages spoken in the home country, particularly in the domains of vocabulary, morphosyntax and phonology. The success of acquiring and maintaining a heritage language may depend on a range of factors, from the age of acquisition of the second language; quantity and quality of input and frequency of first language use, to non-linguistic factors, such as Socio-Economic Status (SES). To investigate case marking accuracy in heritage Bosnian in relation to these very factors, we recruited 20 heritage Bosnian speakers in Austria and Germany, and 20 monolingual Bosnian speakers in Bosnia, aged between 18 and 30 years. Participants were assessed remotely in two sessions, on a battery of tests that included a background language questionnaire investigating participants’ history of language acquisition, current usage and SES, and a newly adapted Bosnian version of the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (MAIN). A significant differe...

Research paper thumbnail of Bilingual Acquisition of Language and Literacy: State of the Art and Beyond

Journal of Home Language Research

Research paper thumbnail of Tagalog adaptation of the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives: History, process and preliminary results

ZAS Papers in Linguistics

This paper briefly presents the current situation of bilingualism in the Philippines, specificall... more This paper briefly presents the current situation of bilingualism in the Philippines, specifically that of Tagalog-English bilingualism. More importantly, it describes the process of adapting the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (LITMUS- MAIN) to Tagalog, the basis of Filipino, which is the country’s national language. Finally, the results of a pilot study conducted on Tagalog-English bilingual children and adults (N=27) are presented. The results showed that Story Structure is similar across the two languages and that it develops significantly with age.

Research paper thumbnail of Processing of pronoun gender by Dutch-Russian simultaneous bilinguals

Language Acquisition and Language Disorders, 2020

Research paper thumbnail of Developing narrative comprehension : multilingual assessment instrument for narratives

John Benjamins eBooks, 2020

Research paper thumbnail of Narrative texts by children and adults

within the framework of their bachelor, master, or PhD theses supervised by Natalia Gagarina duri... more within the framework of their bachelor, master, or PhD theses supervised by Natalia Gagarina during the last years. From the pool of student theses, those that had produced the most interesting results were selected to be published in the present issue. While the results are worth publishing, the reader should be aware that these papers were written by students, and, while suitable for this working papers' journal, may not live up to the standards of peerreviewed journals. In many cases, the paper represents the student's first experience with writing a journal paper. The editors have not corrected and substantially improved upon the way the papers are written. The primary topic of this issue is narrative ability. Narrative ability is a central part of language use, and a child's use of narrative language influences later success at school as it provides a bridge between oral and written language (e.g. Dickinson & Tabors, 2001). Different theoretical frameworks exist that describe the structural organisation of narrative texts, for example story grammar (Stein & Glenn, 1979) and such frameworks have been used to study children's narratives. However, there is still a need to better understand the mechanisms of the acquisition of narrative ability and to apply and further develop the theories which explain the organisation of narrative texts.

Research paper thumbnail of Studies on the development of grammar in German, Russian and Bulgarian

The papers of this 33th volume of the ZAS Papers in Linguistics present intermediate results of t... more The papers of this 33th volume of the ZAS Papers in Linguistics present intermediate results of the ZAS-project on language acquisition. Currently we deal with the question of which functions children assign to the first grammatical forms they use productively. The goal is to identify grammatical features comprising the child's early grammar. This issue is investigated within the analyses of longitudinal data (cf. the papers of Gagarina/Bittner, Gagarina, Kühnast/Popova/Popov, Bewer) as well as within experimental research (see the papers of Bittner, Kühnast/Popova/Popov). The main topic of this volume is the acquisition of definite articles and verbal aspect. Bewer – who has worked as a student assistant in the project for a long time and wrote her MA-thesis on the topic of the project – investigates children's acquisition of gender features in German. Kühnast/Popova/Popov discuss the correlations between the acquisition of definite articles and verbal aspect in Bulgarian. ...

Research paper thumbnail of Heritage Speakers as Part of the Native Language Continuum

Frontiers in Psychology, 2022

We argue for a perspective on bilingual heritage speakers as native speakers of both their langua... more We argue for a perspective on bilingual heritage speakers as native speakers of both their languages and present results from a large-scale, cross-linguistic study that took such a perspective and approached bilinguals and monolinguals on equal grounds. We targeted comparable language use in bilingual and monolingual speakers, crucially covering broader repertoires than just formal language. A main database was the open-access RUEG corpus, which covers comparable informal vs. formal and spoken vs. written productions by adolescent and adult bilinguals with heritage-Greek, -Russian, and -Turkish in Germany and the United States and with heritage-German in the United States, and matching data from monolinguals in Germany, the United States, Greece, Russia, and Turkey. Our main results lie in three areas. (1) We found non-canonical patterns not only in bilingual, but also in monolingual speakers, including patterns that have so far been considered absent from native grammars, in domain...

Research paper thumbnail of Bilingual RussGermZAS Corpus

Research paper thumbnail of Grammatical Development Within a Context of Early Bilingual Education and Language Support Programs

Handbook of Early Language Education, 2021

Research paper thumbnail of 9. Acquisition of additive connectives by Russian-German bilinguals: A usage-based approach

Usage-Based Approaches to Language Acquisition and Language Teaching, 2017

Research paper thumbnail of Intersentential pronominal reference in child and adult language

ZAS Papers in Linguistics, 2007

The 48th volume of the ZAS Papers in Linguistics presents selected papers from the conference on ... more The 48th volume of the ZAS Papers in Linguistics presents selected papers from the conference on Intersentential pronominal reference in child and adult language held at the ZAS in December, 2006. The conference, organized by the project Acquisition and disambiguation of intersentential pronominal reference, brought together leading researchers dealing with anaphora resolution in diverse theoretical approaches and the acquisition perspective on pronominal reference taken by the ZAS project.

Research paper thumbnail of Non-verbal visual working memory predicts narrative comprehension in bilingual, but not monolingual children - is this a bilingual effect?

Research paper thumbnail of An Acquisitional Perspective

This study discusses the acquisition of verbs of motion and their grammatical categories. In part... more This study discusses the acquisition of verbs of motion and their grammatical categories. In particular, it investigates how language-specific peculiarities of Russian verbs of motion influence acquisition of these verbs by young Russian-speaking children. The results indicate variation in the timing and path of the acquisition of uni- vs. multidirectional verbs. It is proposed that these differences in the acquisition of verbs of motion can be traced to variations in their semantics and in the paradigm patterning, as well as in their frequency and contexts of use. Additionally, the pedagogical implications and the possible relevance of these findings based on first language acquisition to the acquisitional strategies of adult learners are discussed.

Research paper thumbnail of Research data supporting "Cross-linguistic patterns in the acquisition of quantifiers

Response_Data.csv: Participant responses ('correct' or 'incorrect') to sentences ... more Response_Data.csv: Participant responses ('correct' or 'incorrect') to sentences with quantifiers ('all', 'none', 'some', 'some...not', 'most') in 31 languages presented in the context of different visual displays. Item_Coding.csv: How sentences with quantifiers ('all', 'none', 'some', 'some...not', 'most') were coded.

Research paper thumbnail of Mehrsprachigkeit unter besonderen Bedingungen

Sprache · Stimme · Gehör, 2018

Research paper thumbnail of On the Typology of Inflection Class Systems

Folia Linguistica, 2006

Infl ectional classes are a property of the ideal infl ecting-fusional language type. Thus strong... more Infl ectional classes are a property of the ideal infl ecting-fusional language type. Thus strongly infl ecting languages have the most complex vertical and horizontal stratifi cation of hierarchical tree structures. Weakly infl ecting languages which also approach the ideal isolating type or languages which also approach the agglutinating type have much shallower structures. Such properties follow from principles of Natural Morphology and from the distinction of the descendent hierarchy of macroclasses, classes, subclasses, subsubclasses etc. and homogeneous microclasses. The main languages of illustration are Latin, Lithuanian, Russian, German, French, Finnish, Hungarian and Turkish.

Research paper thumbnail of On the role of morphological richness in the early development of noun and verb inflection

First Language, 2011

This study proposes a new methodology for determining the relationship between child-directed spe... more This study proposes a new methodology for determining the relationship between child-directed speech and child speech in early acquisition. It illustrates the use of this methodology in investigating the relationship between the morphological richness of child-directed speech and the speed of morphological development in child speech. Both variables are defined in terms of mean size of paradigm (MSP) and estimated in a set of longitudinal spontaneous speech corpora of nine children and their caretakers. The children are aged 1;3–3;0, acquiring nine different languages that vary in terms of morphological richness. The main result is that the degree of morphological richness in child-directed speech is positively related to the speed of development of noun and verb paradigms in child speech.

Research paper thumbnail of Reduplication in child language

Studies on Reduplication

... 456 Wolfgang Dressler et al German: Katharina (Kathi), single child, female, Vienna: 1; 6-3; ... more ... 456 Wolfgang Dressler et al German: Katharina (Kathi), single child, female, Vienna: 1; 6-3; 0 Jan, second child, male, Vienna: 1; 3-2 ... girafe'giraffe',/zedEt/= serviette'napkin', Polish: Zosia 1; 7: pube= spodnie'trousers', 1; 8: pama= pana'Mr.' (Gen.-Acc.),\; 9: pami= pani'Mrs.'. Note ...