Does Timing in Acquisition Modulate Heritage Children’s Language Abilities? Evidence from the Greek LITMUS Sentence Repetition Task
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Recent proposals suggest that timing in acquisition, i.e., the age at which a phenomenon is mastered by monolingual children, influences acquisition of L2, interacting with onset bilingualism and amount L2 input. Here, we examine whether affects bilingual child’s heritage language, possibly modulating effects environmental child-internal factors. The performance 6- to 12-year-old Greek children residing Germany (age German: 0–4 years) was assessed across range nine syntactic structures via LITMUS (Language Impairment Testing Multilingual Settings) Sentence Repetition Task. Based on previous studies Greek, were classified as “early” (main clauses (SVO), coordination, clitics, complement clauses, sentential negation, non-referential wh-questions) or “late” (referential wh-questions, relatives, adverbial clauses). Current family use formal instruction (environmental), chronological age, German (child-internal) Questionnaire for Parents Bilingual Children (PABIQ); short-term memory measured forward digit recall. Children’s scores generally higher early than late acquired structures. Performance three highest predicted current Greek. additionally recall, indicating capacity beneficial correctly reconstructing structurally complex sentences. We understanding language development role factors will benefit from consideration different
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عنوان ژورنال: Languages
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['2226-471X']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/languages6010049