THE ACQUISITION OF SUBJECTS IN 2L1 ROMANIAN
THE ACQUISITION OF SUBJECTS IN 2L1 ROMANIAN
Author(s): Veronica TomescuSubject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Applied Linguistics, Language acquisition
Published by: Editura Universităţii din Bucureşti
Keywords: Romanian-Hungarian bilinguals; subjects; syntactic-pragmatic interface;
Summary/Abstract: The present paper charts the acquisition of Romanian subjects in a Romanian-Hungarian bilingual context, on the basis of two longitudinal corpora. The main results reveal early acquisition of subject use and relatively early sensitivity to the pragmatic constraints governing overt pronominal subjects. A higher percentage of overt subjects which differs both from the input and from what has been reported for L1 Romanian may however indicate that this is an area vulnerable in bilingual acquisition as a syntax/pragmatics interface phenomenon.
Journal: Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics
- Issue Year: 21/2018
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 39-63
- Page Count: 26
- Language: English, Romanian