The acquisition of long-distance Wh-movement by two groups of multilinguals
Publisher
ISB11-International Symposium on Bilingualism, Limerick, Ireland
Date Issued
2017-06-14
Author(s)
Flynn, Suzanne
Abstract
We have examined elicited production data of two groups of multiple language learners: HungarianL1/GermanL2/EnglishL3 and HungarianL1/SpanishL2/EnglishL3. Results show nuanced differences in acquisition patterns, which we attribute to the minimal difference in learners’ background languages. It also implies that learners’ syntactic fluency can be enhanced in principled and selective ways.
Subjects
long-distance Wh-movement
Type
info:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceObject
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