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Polish-English bilingual children overuse referential markers : MLU inflation in Polish-language narratives

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dc.abstract.enPolish and English differ in the surface realization of the underlying Determiner Phrase (DP): Polish lacks an article system, whereas English makes use of articles for both grammatical and pragmatic reasons. This difference has an impact on how referentiality is rendered in both languages. In this article, the authors investigate the use of referential markers by Polish–English bilingual children and Polish monolingual children. Using the LITMUS-MAIN picture stories, the authors collected speech samples of Polish–English bilinguals raised in the UK (n = 92, mean age 5;7) and compared them with matched Polish monolinguals (n = 92, mean age 5;7). The analyses revealed that the bilinguals’ mean length of utterance (MLU) in Polish was significantly higher than that of the monolinguals because the bilinguals produced significantly more referential markers (especially pronouns) which inflated their MLU. The authors posit that the non-standard referentiality used by the bilinguals in Polish is caused by cross-language transfer at the syntax–pragmatics interface. When producing narratives in Polish, Polish–English bilinguals overuse referential markers as cohesive devices in their stories, which is not ungrammatical, but pragmatically odd in Polish. Bilinguals tend to do this because they are immersed in English-language input, rich in overt pronouns. Thus, in the process of realizing the surface features of the Polish DP they partly rely on an underlying English DP structure.
dc.affiliationUniwersytet Warszawski
dc.contributor.authorBiałecka-Pikul, Marta
dc.contributor.authorOpacki, Marcin
dc.contributor.authorWodniecka, Zofia
dc.contributor.authorOtwinowska-Kasztelanic, Agnieszka
dc.contributor.authorMieszkowska, Karolina
dc.contributor.authorHaman, Ewa
dc.date.accessioned2024-01-25T17:00:53Z
dc.date.available2024-01-25T17:00:53Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description.financePublikacja bezkosztowa
dc.description.number2
dc.description.volume42
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/0142723720933769
dc.identifier.issn0142-7237
dc.identifier.urihttps://repozytorium.uw.edu.pl//handle/item/116262
dc.identifier.weblinkhttps://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0142723720933769
dc.languageeng
dc.pbn.affiliationlinguistics
dc.relation.ispartofFirst Language
dc.relation.pages191-215
dc.rightsClosedAccess
dc.sciencecloudnosend
dc.subject.enbilingual children
dc.subject.ennarrative
dc.subject.enmonolingual children
dc.subject.encross-linguistic transfer
dc.subject.enmean length of utterance (MLU)
dc.titlePolish-English bilingual children overuse referential markers : MLU inflation in Polish-language narratives
dc.typeJournalArticle
dspace.entity.typePublication