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Conference Paper: Bilingual and trilingual acquisition of relative clauses in Cantonese and Mandarin
| Title | Bilingual and trilingual acquisition of relative clauses in Cantonese and Mandarin |
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| Issue Date | 2019 |
| Citation | Acquisition of Chinese: Bilingualism and Multilingualism Conference, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, 1-3 July 2019 How to Cite? |
| Abstract | Bilingual children acquiring Cantonese and English show early acquisition of object relative clauses, a pattern which is transferred to English (Yip & Mathews 2007) but contrasts with findings for both monolingual and bilingual acquisition of Mandarin. Trilingual children acquiring Cantonese, Mandarin and English show a different pattern of interactions (Chan, Matthews & Yip 2017): an advantage for subject relative clauses in Cantonese as in Mandarin, and a pattern of comprehension errors with object relative clauses implying reverse transfer from English. These findings highlight some differences between bilingual and trilingual acquisition. They also demonstrate the importance of structural differences between varieties of Chinese, which in this case lead to an advantage for object relative clauses in Cantonese. |
| Description | Invited Speech - Session 1: Panel 1: L3 Acquisition I |
| Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/281074 |
| DC Field | Value | Language |
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| dc.contributor.author | Matthews, SJ | - |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-03-04T02:14:17Z | - |
| dc.date.available | 2020-03-04T02:14:17Z | - |
| dc.date.issued | 2019 | - |
| dc.identifier.citation | Acquisition of Chinese: Bilingualism and Multilingualism Conference, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK, 1-3 July 2019 | - |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/281074 | - |
| dc.description | Invited Speech - Session 1: Panel 1: L3 Acquisition I | - |
| dc.description.abstract | Bilingual children acquiring Cantonese and English show early acquisition of object relative clauses, a pattern which is transferred to English (Yip & Mathews 2007) but contrasts with findings for both monolingual and bilingual acquisition of Mandarin. Trilingual children acquiring Cantonese, Mandarin and English show a different pattern of interactions (Chan, Matthews & Yip 2017): an advantage for subject relative clauses in Cantonese as in Mandarin, and a pattern of comprehension errors with object relative clauses implying reverse transfer from English. These findings highlight some differences between bilingual and trilingual acquisition. They also demonstrate the importance of structural differences between varieties of Chinese, which in this case lead to an advantage for object relative clauses in Cantonese. | - |
| dc.language | eng | - |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Acquisition of Chinese: Bilingualism and Multilingualism Conference | - |
| dc.title | Bilingual and trilingual acquisition of relative clauses in Cantonese and Mandarin | - |
| dc.type | Conference_Paper | - |
| dc.identifier.email | Matthews, SJ: matthews@hku.hk | - |
| dc.identifier.authority | Matthews, SJ=rp01207 | - |
| dc.identifier.hkuros | 308239 | - |