Simultan-bilingualer Pluralerwerb von Deutsch und Kroatisch
Simultaneous Bilingual Acquisition of Plural Forms in German and Croatian
Author(s): Marina Čamber, Wolfgang U. DresslerSubject(s): Language acquisition, Sociolinguistics, Cognitive linguistics, South Slavic Languages, Preschool education
Published by: Odsjek za germanistiku - Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu
Keywords: plural acquisition; simultaneous bilingual language acquisition; bilingualism;
Summary/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.
Journal: Zagreber Germanistische Beiträge
- Issue Year: 2022
- Issue No: 31
- Page Range: 199-224
- Page Count: 26
- Language: German