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Article: Bilingual children as 'laboratories' for studying contact outcomes: Development of perfective aspect

TitleBilingual children as 'laboratories' for studying contact outcomes: Development of perfective aspect
Authors
KeywordsAsian-Portuguese creole
Cantonese-English bilingual acquisition
creole genesis
grammaticalization
language contact
Issue Date2019
PublisherDe Gruyter Mouton. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.degruyter.de/journals/linguistics
Citation
Linguistics, 2019, v. 57 n. 3, p. 693-723 How to Cite?
AbstractThis paper examines the close parallels between the contact phenomena in Cantonese-English bilingual children and Southeast Asian creoles, especially in the domain of perfective aspect marking. ‘Already’ is a cross-linguistically common lexical source of perfective aspect markers given its conceptual link with the sense of perfectivity. In contact scenarios involving a European lexifier and Southeast Asian substrates, the development of ‘already’ into a perfective marker is further triggered by the incompatibility between the verbal morphology of the former and the isolating typology of the latter. Adopting an ecological approach to language transmission and creole genesis we discuss how the transient grammaticalization phenomena in the bilingual children can be compared to decreolization, and how the study of bilingual acquisition can contribute to contact linguistics. Despite the prevalence of unpredictable factors in contact scenarios, we argue that bilingual children can still serve as powerful “laboratories” for studying contact outcomes at the communal level.
Persistent Identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/270142
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2023 Impact Factor: 1.3
2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.559
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dc.contributor.authorSZETO, PY-
dc.contributor.authorMatthews, SJ-
dc.contributor.authorYip, V-
dc.date.accessioned2019-05-20T05:10:27Z-
dc.date.available2019-05-20T05:10:27Z-
dc.date.issued2019-
dc.identifier.citationLinguistics, 2019, v. 57 n. 3, p. 693-723-
dc.identifier.issn0024-3949-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/270142-
dc.description.abstractThis paper examines the close parallels between the contact phenomena in Cantonese-English bilingual children and Southeast Asian creoles, especially in the domain of perfective aspect marking. ‘Already’ is a cross-linguistically common lexical source of perfective aspect markers given its conceptual link with the sense of perfectivity. In contact scenarios involving a European lexifier and Southeast Asian substrates, the development of ‘already’ into a perfective marker is further triggered by the incompatibility between the verbal morphology of the former and the isolating typology of the latter. Adopting an ecological approach to language transmission and creole genesis we discuss how the transient grammaticalization phenomena in the bilingual children can be compared to decreolization, and how the study of bilingual acquisition can contribute to contact linguistics. Despite the prevalence of unpredictable factors in contact scenarios, we argue that bilingual children can still serve as powerful “laboratories” for studying contact outcomes at the communal level.-
dc.languageeng-
dc.publisherDe Gruyter Mouton. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.degruyter.de/journals/linguistics-
dc.relation.ispartofLinguistics-
dc.rights© 2019 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston. The final publication is available at www.degruyter.com-
dc.subjectAsian-Portuguese creole-
dc.subjectCantonese-English bilingual acquisition-
dc.subjectcreole genesis-
dc.subjectgrammaticalization-
dc.subjectlanguage contact-
dc.titleBilingual children as 'laboratories' for studying contact outcomes: Development of perfective aspect-
dc.typeArticle-
dc.identifier.emailMatthews, SJ: matthews@hku.hk-
dc.identifier.authorityMatthews, SJ=rp01207-
dc.description.naturepublished_or_final_version-
dc.identifier.doi10.1515/ling-2019-0012-
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dc.identifier.hkuros297782-
dc.identifier.volume57-
dc.identifier.issue3-
dc.identifier.spage693-
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dc.identifier.isiWOS:000471262600007-
dc.publisher.placeGermany-
dc.identifier.issnl0024-3949-

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