TY  - JOUR
TI  - Effects of second language on motion event lexicalization: Comparison of bilingual and monolingual children’s frog story narratives
AB  - This study investigates how children lexicalize motion event patterns in their first and second languages, L1-Turkish and L2-English. English is a satellite-framed language that conflates motion with manner expressed in themain verb and path in a non-verbal element, whereas Turkish is a verb-framed language that conflates motion withpath in the main verb and expresses manner in a subordinated verb. We asked whether (1) learning a secondlanguage had an effect on children’s event descriptions in their first language and (2) the effects were bidirectional.One-hundred-and-twelve 5- and 7-year-old monolingual (L1-Turkish) and bilingual (L1-Turkish; L2-English)children participated. Participants produced narratives for wordless picture book, Frog, where are you? Six scenesof the book were selected for coding purposes as they represented motion events: (1) Frog’s exit from the jar, (2)Dog’s fall from the window, (3) Gopher popping out of the hole, (4) Owl’s exit from a nest, (5) Boy and dogfalling down and (6) Boy and dog landing in a pond. For L1 descriptions, 5-year-old bilinguals used more manneronly and less path-only descriptions than monolinguals; no difference was found for 7-year-olds. For L2descriptions, bilingual children used less Manner-only and more Path-only expressions in their L2 narrativescompared to L1 narratives. These findings suggest that for 5-year-olds, exposure to second language had an impacton how motion events are encoded. Results inform us about the early interactions between L1 and L2 in motionevent lexicalization.© 2020 JLLS and the Authors - Published by JLLS.
AU  - AKTAN-ERCIYES, ASLI
DO  - 10.17263/jlls.803576
PY  - 2020
JO  - Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies
VL  - 16
IS  - 3
SN  - 1305-578X
SP  - 1127
EP  - 1145
DB  - TRDizin
UR  - http://search/yayin/detay/395143
ER  -