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Crosslinguistic transfer in the acquisition of compound words in Persian-English bilinguals

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dc.contributor.authorForoodi-Nejad, F.
dc.contributor.authorParadis, J.
dc.date.accessioned2025-05-01T20:55:56Z
dc.date.available2025-05-01T20:55:56Z
dc.date.issued2009
dc.descriptionCrosslinguistic transfer in bilingual language acquisition has been widely reported in various linguistic domains (e.g., D¨opke, 1998; Nicoladis, 1999; Paradis, 2001). In this study we examined structural overlap (D¨opke, 2000; M¨uller and Hulk, 2001) and dominance (Yip and Matthews, 2000) as explanatory factors for crosslinguistic transfer in Persian–English bilingual children’s production of novel compound words. Nineteen Persian monolinguals, sixteen Persian–English bilinguals, and seventeen English monolinguals participated in a novel compound production task. Our results showed crosslinguistic influence of Persian on English and of English on Persian. Bilingual children produced more right-headed compounds in Persian, compared with Persian monolinguals, and in their English task, they produced more left-headed compounds than English monolinguals. Furthermore, Persian-dominant bilinguals tended more towards left-headed compounds in Persian than the English-dominant group. These findings point to both structural overlap and language dominance as factors underlying crosslinguistic transfer.
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.7939/R3KK34
dc.language.isoen
dc.relation.isversionofForoodi-Nejad, F. & Paradis, J. (2009). Crosslinguistic transfer in the acquisition of compound words in Persian-English bilinguals." Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 12(4), 411-27. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1366728909990241
dc.rights© Cambridge University Press 2009
dc.subjectTransfer of training
dc.subjectBilingualism
dc.subjectEnglish
dc.subjectLanguage dominance
dc.subjectLanguage acquisition
dc.subjectIndo-European languages
dc.titleCrosslinguistic transfer in the acquisition of compound words in Persian-English bilinguals
dc.typehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501 http://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85
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