Focus in heritage Hungarian. (2nd January 2019)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Focus in heritage Hungarian. (2nd January 2019)
- Main Title:
- Focus in heritage Hungarian
- Authors:
- Hoot, Bradley
- Abstract:
- ABSTRACT: Bilinguals have been shown to differ from monolinguals especially in the realization and interpretation of phenomena that operate at the syntax/discourse interface. Hungarian has a well-known interface structure—identificational focus—which has been widely studied in the theoretical literature but never with bilinguals. The present article fills that gap, using three acceptability judgment experiments to test the realization and interpretation of identificational focus by heritage speakers and L1-dominant native speakers of Hungarian. The results reveal that both groups pattern similarly, showing some vulnerability at the syntax/discourse interface with regard to focus interpretation but less so with its realization. Further, the findings bear on the description of Hungarian focus in the theoretical literature, providing experimental evidence that focus is realized preverbally and that its interpretation is the result of a pragmatic implicature rather than part of the sentence's semantics.
- Is Part Of:
- Language acquisition. Volume 26:Number 1(2019)
- Journal:
- Language acquisition
- Issue:
- Volume 26:Number 1(2019)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 26, Issue 1 (2019)
- Year:
- 2019
- Volume:
- 26
- Issue:
- 1
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2019-0026-0001-0000
- Page Start:
- 46
- Page End:
- 72
- Publication Date:
- 2019-01-02
- Subjects:
- Language acquisition -- Periodicals
401.9305 - Journal URLs:
- http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/hlac20#.VrnDpVLcuic ↗
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=t775653668~tab=issueslist ↗
http://www.jstor.org/journals/10489223.html ↗
http://www.tandfonline.com/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1080/10489223.2017.1393078 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 1048-9223
- Deposit Type:
- Legaldeposit
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- British Library DSC - 5155.692000
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