Online processing of which-questions in bilingual children : Evidence from eye-tracking

Pontikas, George; Cunnings, Ian; Marinis, Theodoros

Online processing of which-questions in bilingual children : Evidence from eye-tracking

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2023

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Pontikas, George

Cunnings, Ian

Marinis, Theodoros

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Open Access Hybrid

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Journal of Child Language. Cambridge University Press. 2023, 50(5), pp. 1082-1118. ISSN 0305-0009. eISSN 1469-7602. Available under: doi: 10.1017/S0305000922000253

Zusammenfassung

An emergent debate surrounds the nature of language processing in bilingual children as an extension of broader questions about their morphosyntactic development in comparison to monolinguals, with the picture so far being nuanced. This paper adds to this debate by investigating the processing of morphosyntactically complex which-questions (e.g., Which bear is chasing the camel?) using the visual world paradigm and is the first study to examine the online processing of such questions in bilingual children. For both groups, object which-questions were more difficult than subject which-questions, due to an initial misinterpretation that needed to be reanalysed. Both groups were aided by number mismatch between the two nouns in the sentence, especially in object which-questions. Our findings are in line with previous studies that have shown a slower processing speed in bilingual children relative to monolinguals but qualitatively similar patterns.

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400 Sprachwissenschaft, Linguistik

Schlagwörter

sentence processing; childhood bilingualism; eye-tracking; wh-questions; morphosyntax

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PONTIKAS, George, Ian CUNNINGS, Theodoros MARINIS, 2023. Online processing of which-questions in bilingual children : Evidence from eye-tracking. In: Journal of Child Language. Cambridge University Press. 2023, 50(5), pp. 1082-1118. ISSN 0305-0009. eISSN 1469-7602. Available under: doi: 10.1017/S0305000922000253

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@article{Pontikas2023Onlin-57715,
  year={2023},
  doi={10.1017/S0305000922000253},
  title={Online processing of which-questions in bilingual children : Evidence from eye-tracking},
  number={5},
  volume={50},
  issn={0305-0009},
  journal={Journal of Child Language},
  pages={1082--1118},
  author={Pontikas, George and Cunnings, Ian and Marinis, Theodoros}
}

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