{"id":63,"date":"2020-12-05T00:45:25","date_gmt":"2020-12-05T00:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testvcla.cac.cornell.edu\/?post_type=projects&p=63"},"modified":"2020-12-09T16:25:46","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T16:25:46","slug":"the-development-of-the-two-languages-in-bilingual-children-spanish-english","status":"publish","type":"projects","link":"https:\/\/testvcla.cac.cornell.edu\/es\/projects\/the-development-of-the-two-languages-in-bilingual-children-spanish-english\/","title":{"rendered":"The development of the two languages in bilingual children: Spanish-English"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Major Contributors<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Jennifer Austin, Mar\u00eda Blume, Liliana S\u00e1nchez<\/p>\n

Lab(s) Name(s)<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Jennifer Austin: Infant Cognition Center, Rutgers University-Newark; Mar\u00eda Blume: Language Acquisition Research Lab, University of Texas at El Paso; Liliana S\u00e1nchez: Bilingualism and Second Language Acquisition Lab, Rutgers University-New Brunswick<\/p>\n

URL<\/strong><\/h2>\n

http:\/\/andromeda.rutgers.edu\/~jbaustin\/<\/p>\n

Coverage (countries)<\/strong><\/h2>\n

United States<\/p>\n

Languages<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Spanish, English<\/p>\n

Date<\/strong><\/h2>\n

10\/2003-6\/2006<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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GENERAL PROJECT DESCRIPTION<\/strong><\/h2>\n

This project is a study of morphosyntactic development in bilingual children who speak Spanish as a first language and who are acquiring English as a second language in school.<\/p>\n

PURPOSES OF THE PROJECT<\/strong><\/h2>\n

This longitudinal study was designed to investigate the development of negative sentences, negative polarity items (NPI) and interrogatives in the L1 and the L2 of 10 Spanish-English bilingual children learning English as a second language (ages 5;09 to 9;00 at the time of the first recording). The results indicate that cross-linguistic influence has a selective effect on the loss of Spanish in bilingual children. Contact with English impeded the children’s ability to produce correct Spanish interrogative and negative polarity item (NPI) sentences, whereas the development of negative sentences was far less affected. In addition, there was no evidence of convergence towards English, the socially dominant L2. These findings suggest that the Spanish of this group of bilingual children is undergoing attrition, rather than convergence or incomplete acquisition, while their second language shows strong developmental progress.<\/p>\n

LEADING QUESTIONS<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Do Spanish\/ English bilingual children undergo attrition in their first language when they learn English as a second language in school? How does their syntactic development in Spanish compare with their acquisition of English?<\/p>\n

RATIONALE AND AGENDA<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Research on the syntax of adult heritage learners of Spanish indicates that their grammars differ from those of native speakers (Montrul 2006,Silva-Corval\u00e1n 1994). However, it is unclear whether these differences stem from the incomplete acquisition of Spanish, first language attrition (loss), or syntactic convergence between their languages. In addition, there is little information regarding how these processes interact with normal grammatical development in bilingual children.<\/p>\n

PARTICULAR STUDIES<\/strong><\/h2>\n

CURRENT STATUS OF PROJECT<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Data collected, analyzed; article currently under review.<\/p>\n

PEOPLE<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Ryan Pomerantz, Jessica Blakeslee and Marina Yalon (research assistants).<\/p>\n

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS<\/strong><\/h2>\n

2008:”Morphosyntactic attrition in the L1 of Spanish-English bilingual children”. Jennifer Austin, Mar\u00eda Blume and Liliana S\u00e1nchez. Invited panel presentation, International Association for the Study of Child Language, Edinburgh, Scotland. 2005 \u201cNegation and interrogation in Spanish-English bilingual children\u201d. Jennifer Austin, Mar\u00eda Blume and Liliana S\u00e1nchez. Paper presented at the Workshop on Bilingual Convergence held at the Pennsylvania State University.<\/p>\n

PAPERS\/BOOKS PUBLISHED<\/strong><\/h2>\n

PAPERS IN PREP<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Syntactic Development in the L1 of Spanish-English Bilingual Children (under review)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Major Contributors Jennifer Austin, Mar\u00eda Blume, Liliana S\u00e1nchez Lab(s) Name(s) Jennifer Austin: Infant Cognition Center, Rutgers University-Newark; Mar\u00eda Blume: Language Acquisition Research Lab, University of Texas at El Paso; Liliana S\u00e1nchez: Bilingualism and Second Language Acquisition Lab, Rutgers University-New Brunswick URL http:\/\/andromeda.rutgers.edu\/~jbaustin\/ Coverage (countries) United States Languages Spanish, English Date 10\/2003-6\/2006 GENERAL PROJECT DESCRIPTION This […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"2.5.23","language":"es","enabled_languages":["en","es"],"languages":{"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"es":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testvcla.cac.cornell.edu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/projects\/63"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testvcla.cac.cornell.edu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/projects"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testvcla.cac.cornell.edu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/projects"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testvcla.cac.cornell.edu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testvcla.cac.cornell.edu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/testvcla.cac.cornell.edu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/projects\/63\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":409,"href":"https:\/\/testvcla.cac.cornell.edu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/projects\/63\/revisions\/409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testvcla.cac.cornell.edu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}