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TY - JOUR
T1 - Differences in use without deficiencies in competence
T2 - passives in the Turkish and German of Turkish heritage speakers in Germany
AU - Bayram, Fatih
AU - Rothman, Jason
AU - Iverson, Michael
AU - Kupisch, Tanja
AU - Miller, David
AU - Puig-Mayenco, Eloi
AU - Westergaard, Marit
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2017, © 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2019/11/17
Y1 - 2019/11/17
N2 - Determining how and why adult outcomes of heritage speaker (HS) bilingualism differ from monolinguals is difficult because it requires the reconstruction of developmental paths from end-state data. In an effort to address this issue, we examine HSs of Turkish in Germany at an early age of development (10–15 years old, n = 22), as well as age-matched monolingual controls in Turkey (n = 20) and Germany (n = 20), using a structured elicitation task for production of passives. The goal is to see whether HSs have the representation of passives in their mental grammars and to better understand the relative weight of factors (age at time of testing, immigration status of the Turkish parents (first or second generation), and literacy in the L1) that potentially contribute to the formation of HSs’ grammatical competence. The results show that all HSs have the underlying representation for passives in both Turkish and German. There was a significant effect of only literacy; high level of L1 literacy has a positive effect on monolingual-like production as compared to those with no literacy. We discuss these results pertaining to explicating ultimate attainment outcomes in heritage language acquisition in relation to larger debates in the field.
AB - Determining how and why adult outcomes of heritage speaker (HS) bilingualism differ from monolinguals is difficult because it requires the reconstruction of developmental paths from end-state data. In an effort to address this issue, we examine HSs of Turkish in Germany at an early age of development (10–15 years old, n = 22), as well as age-matched monolingual controls in Turkey (n = 20) and Germany (n = 20), using a structured elicitation task for production of passives. The goal is to see whether HSs have the representation of passives in their mental grammars and to better understand the relative weight of factors (age at time of testing, immigration status of the Turkish parents (first or second generation), and literacy in the L1) that potentially contribute to the formation of HSs’ grammatical competence. The results show that all HSs have the underlying representation for passives in both Turkish and German. There was a significant effect of only literacy; high level of L1 literacy has a positive effect on monolingual-like production as compared to those with no literacy. We discuss these results pertaining to explicating ultimate attainment outcomes in heritage language acquisition in relation to larger debates in the field.
KW - German
KW - Heritage speaker bilingualism
KW - literacy
KW - passives
KW - production
KW - Turkish
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85019639405&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/13670050.2017.1324403
DO - 10.1080/13670050.2017.1324403
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85019639405
VL - 22
SP - 919
EP - 939
JO - International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism
JF - International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism
SN - 1367-0050
IS - 8
ER -