Pragmatic abilities in bilinguals

ǂthe ǂcase of scalar implicatures

Ludivine Dupuy (Author), Penka Stateva (Author), Sara Andreetta (Author), Anne Cheylus (Author), Viviane Déprez (Author), Jean-Baptiste van der Henst (Author), Jacques Jayez (Author), Arthur Stepanov (Author), Anne Reboul (Author)

Abstract

The experimental literature on the pragmatic abilities of bilinguals is rather sparse. The only study investigating adult second language (L2) learners ( Slabakova, 2010 ) found an increase of pragmatic responses in that population relative to monolinguals. The results of studies on early bilingual children are unclear, some finding a significant increase in pragmatic responses in early bilingual children (preschoolers) relative to monolinguals ( Siegal et al., 2007 ), while another ( Antoniou and Katsos, 2017 ), testing school children, does not. We tested adult French L2 learners of English and Spanish (in their two languages) as well as French monolingual controls in Experiment 1 and Italian-Slovenian early bilingual children (in both languages) and Slovenian monolingual controls in Experiment 2. Our results were similar to those of Antoniou and Katsos (2017) in early bilingual children, but different from those of Siegal et al. (2007) . We found no pragmatic bias in adult L2 leaners relative to adult monolinguals.

Keywords

quantifier;scalar implicature;L2 learner;bilingualism;

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Language:	English
Year of publishing:	2019
Typology:	1.01 - Original Scientific Article
Organization:	UNG - University of Nova Gorica
UDC:	81
COBISS:	4990459
ISSN:	1879-9264
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URN:	URN:SI:UNG
Type (COBISS):	Not categorized
Pages:	str. 1-27
Volume:	ǂVol. ǂ9
Issue:	ǂiss. ǂ2
Chronology:	2019
DOI:	10.1075/lab.17017.dup
ID:	10898620