Transfer Phenomena in Bilingual Language Acquisition: The Case of Caused-Motion Constructions

Usage-based approaches suggest that children gradually build abstract syntactic patterns, called constructions, through processes of abstraction and schematization from the input they receive. Bilingual children have the challenge of learning two sets of non-equivalent constructions when they build...

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Main Authors: Nikolas Koch, Katharina Günther
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2021-02-01
Series:Languages
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2226-471X/6/1/25