dc.date.accessioned | 2024-06-25T15:05:41Z | |
dc.date.available | 2024-06-25T15:05:41Z | |
dc.date.created | 2024-05-14T11:56:56Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2024 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Andresen, Hanna Solberg Delucchi Danhier, Renate Mertins, Barbara . Dominant-while-speaking: How bilingual Norwegian–English children conceptualize goal-oriented motion events. International Journal of Bilingualism. 2024 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10852/111217 | |
dc.description.abstract | Aim:
This study investigates how simultaneous bilingual Norwegian–English children conceptualize goal-oriented motion events in their two languages, which have different and partly conflicting language-specific conceptualization patterns (the so-called holistic, endpoint-oriented perspective vs. a phasal perspective with focus on ongoingness).
Design:
The experiment combined three different methodologies to measure attention to endpoints: elicitation of spoken data, eye-tracking, and a subsequent memory test. A total of 23 bilingual Norwegian–English children participated on a separate day for each language. The comparison groups comprised monolingual Norwegian children (n = 21), first language (L1) Norwegian adults (n = 30), and L1 English adults (n = 20).
Data and analysis:
The statistical analysis included calculations of endpoints mentioned and endpoints remembered in each language and for both sessions, and an event-related analysis was conducted to establish the total length of all fixations on the areas of interest (AoIs [the endpoints]), in each language and for both sessions.
Findings/conclusions:
The results showed an effect of the language of operation on conceptualization, independent of language dominance, but depending on the situation. In their first session, the bilingual children showed a strong awareness of the prototypical conceptualization pattern in the language they were speaking. In their second session, the children’s conceptualization was influenced by their first. Hence, we can talk about a flexible conceptual dominance linked to language, the situation, and to previous experience.
Originality:
This study for the first time explores simultaneous bilingual children’s conceptualization of goal-oriented motion events in their two languages and with different methodologies.
Significance/implications:
This study brings new insights into our understanding of early bilingualism at a conceptual level, with implications for the field, but also for parents, caregivers, and stakeholders, who at times need to be reminded about children’s unique capacity for language learning. | |
dc.language | EN | |
dc.rights | Attribution 4.0 International | |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | |
dc.title | Dominant-while-speaking: How bilingual Norwegian–English children conceptualize goal-oriented motion events | |
dc.title.alternative | ENEngelskEnglishDominant-while-speaking: How bilingual Norwegian–English children conceptualize goal-oriented motion events | |
dc.type | Journal article | |
dc.creator.author | Andresen, Hanna Solberg | |
dc.creator.author | Delucchi Danhier, Renate | |
dc.creator.author | Mertins, Barbara | |
cristin.unitcode | 185,14,35,80 | |
cristin.unitname | Center for Multilingualism in Society across the Lifespan | |
cristin.ispublished | true | |
cristin.fulltext | original | |
cristin.qualitycode | 2 | |
dc.identifier.cristin | 2268482 | |
dc.identifier.bibliographiccitation | info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&rft.jtitle=International Journal of Bilingualism&rft.volume=&rft.spage=&rft.date=2024 | |
dc.identifier.jtitle | International Journal of Bilingualism | |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1177/13670069241251781 | |
dc.type.document | Tidsskriftartikkel | |
dc.type.peerreviewed | Peer reviewed | |
dc.source.issn | 1367-0069 | |
dc.type.version | PublishedVersion | |