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SUMMARY:The acquisition of caused motion by Uyghur-Chinese early successiv
 e bilinguals - Alimujiang Tusun\, MEITS Postdoctoral Research Associate\, 
 University of Cambridge
DTSTART:20190523T120000Z
DTEND:20190523T133000Z
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CONTACT:Anne Helene Halbout
DESCRIPTION:The relative role of universal cognitive factors versus langua
 ge-specific properties is a prominent theme of research in child language 
 development. This study extends the discussion to the context of early suc
 cessive bilingualism (ESB) by focusing on the acquisition of caused motion
  expressions by Uyghur-Chinese bilinguals. Our findings reveal a simultane
 ous but differential impact of the aforementioned two sets of factors. The
  observed differences in the developmental trajectories of the two languag
 es\, especially as evidenced by children’s consistently higher utterance
  density in Chinese\, points to the weightier role of language-specific co
 nstraints. However\, the increase in utterance density\, i.e. children’s
  ability to focus on and retain more semantic components for expression ov
 er time regardless of language indicates the contribution of their develop
 ing general cognitive abilities. Bilinguals follow the adult pattern of ex
 pressing caused motion in their L1. In their L2 Chinese\, they bypass the 
 shared constructions in their two languages up until age 8 and employ the 
 structure unique to their L1\, presumably because this option is structura
 lly less complex (mono-clausal) compared to the shared bi-clausal option. 
 As such\, cross-linguistic influence seems to be shaped by structural/typo
 logical overlap on the one hand and the syntactic complexity of the struct
 ures involved on the other.
LOCATION:Room 336\, Raised Faculty Building\, MML\, Sidgwick Avenue\, Camb
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