Input or intimacy

dc.contributor.authorNavracsics, Judit
dc.date.accessioned2014-11-28T15:30:12Z
dc.date.available2014-11-28T15:30:12Z
dc.date.issued2014-10
dc.description.abstractAccording to the critical period hypothesis, the earlier the acquisition of a second language starts, the better. Owing to the plasticity of the brain, up until a certain age a second language can be acquired successfully according to this view. Early second language learners are commonly said to have an advantage over later ones especially in phonetic/phonological acquisition. Native-like pronunciation is said to be most likely to be achieved by young learners. However, there is evidence of accent-free speech in second languages learnt after puberty as well. Occasionally, on the other hand, a nonnative accent may appear even in early second (or third) language acquisition. Cross-linguistic influences are natural in multilingual development, and we would expect the dominant language to have an impact on the weaker one(s). The dominant language is usually the one that provides the largest amount of input for the child. But is it always the amount that counts? Perhaps sometimes other factors, such as emotions, come into play? In this paper, data obtained from an English- Persian-Hungarian trilingual pair of siblings (under age 4 and 3 respectively) is analyzed, with a special focus on cross-linguistic influences at the phonetic/phonological levels. It will be shown that beyond the amount of input there are more important factors that trigger interference in multilingual developmentpl_PL
dc.description.articlenumber6pl_PL
dc.description.journaltitleStudies in Second Language Learning and Teachingpl_PL
dc.description.number3pl_PL
dc.description.pageof485pl_PL
dc.description.pageto506pl_PL
dc.description.volume4pl_PL
dc.identifier.citationStudies in Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2014, vol. 4, no. 3, pp.485-506pl_PL
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.14746/ssllt.2014.4.3.6
dc.identifier.issn2083-5205
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10593/12234
dc.language.isoenpl_PL
dc.publisherZakład Filologii Angielskiej Wydział Pedagogiczno-Artystyczny Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza w Kaliszupl_PL
dc.subjectgeneral language effort
dc.subjectinput
dc.subjectemotionality
dc.subjectmultilingual acquisitionpl_PL
dc.titleInput or intimacypl_PL
dc.typeArtykułpl_PL

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