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Mandarin–Italian Dual-Language Children’s Comprehension of Head-Final and Head-Initial Relative Clauses
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In: Front Psychol (2020)
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The acquisition of languages by children using two languages is a matter of debate as many factors contribute to the success of this type of acquisition. We focus on how the competence of dual-language children changes in their two languages as a function of length of exposure and establish whether there are reciprocal influences during language development. We examined the comprehension of subject and object relative clauses in a group of 6-year-old (younger) and 8-year-old (older) Mandarin–Italian dual-language children. After 3 years of regular and intensive exposure to Italian, the younger group reached the same level of competence in the comprehension of relative clauses in their two languages, and after 5 years of exposure to Italian, the older group had a better comprehension of relative clauses in Italian than in Mandarin. Acquiring two languages leads to bidirectional influence, beyond a reciprocal support. Finally, some penalty may be observed in the acquisition of subject head-final relative clauses, which is not evident in that of subject head-initial relative clauses.
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Psychology
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URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32848963
https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01379
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7431764/
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A new case for structural intervention: evidence from Wenzhounese relative clauses
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In: ISSN: 0925-8558 ; EISSN: 1572-8560 ; Journal of East Asian Linguistics ; https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01905664 ; Journal of East Asian Linguistics, Springer Verlag, 2018, 27 (3), pp.247 - 273. ⟨10.1007/s10831-018-9182-4⟩ (2018)
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Chinese Children's Knowledge of Topicalization : Experimental Evidence from a Comprehension Study
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Chinese Children’s Knowledge of Topicalization: Experimental Evidence from a Comprehension Study
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The Production of Clitic Pronouns: A Study on Bilingual and Monolingual Dyslexic Children
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