Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.17234/ZGB.31.12
Simultaneous Bilingual Acquisition of Plural Forms in German and Croatian
Marina Čamber
orcid.org/0000-0003-3416-9130
; University College of Teacher Education Lower Austria, Baden, Austria
Wolfgang U. Dressler
; University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Abstract
This paper deals with the acquisition of plural forms in German and Croatian by simultaneously bilingual children growing up in Vienna. At the age of 3 and 4, the children were tested at home and in their kindergarten on four different occasions (3, 12, 3 and 12 months apart) in order to examine their development of plural forms using a mixed-method approach, i.e. formal plural tests, spontaneous speech recordings, and a semi-spontaneous picture story. The results are related to monolingual and successive-bilingual data. The data gained from the experiment suggests that there is a mutual influence between the two languages in the production of plural forms.
Keywords
plural acquisition; simultaneous bilingual language acquisition; bilingualism
Hrčak ID:
289503
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Publication date:
29.12.2022.
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