Competing Structures in the Bilingual Mind (eBook)

Dr. Elif Bamyaci is a Post-Doctoral Researcher at the University of Cologne, Germany, in the department of German language and literature. Dr. Bamyaci received her Ph.D. in Linguistics, from the University of Konstanz, Germany.

1 Introduction.- 2 Theoretical and Empirical Accounts of 'modular mind' .- 2.1 A Historical Background.- 2.2 An Overview on Linguistic Interface Research: Evidence from child and agrammatic speech.- 3 Linguistic Interfaces in Bilingual Research- 3.1 The Interface Syntax in the Grammar of Bilingual Children.-3.2 Interface Syntax in the Grammar of L1 Attriters.-3.3 Interface Syntax in the Grammar of Near-Native L2 learners.- 4 A Review of Research on Heritage Bilingual Speakers.- 4.1 Characteristics of Heritage Languages and Heritage Speakers.- 4.2 Approaches to Understanding the Grammar of HS.- 4.3 Aims of the Book.- 5. Measuring animacy effects on verb number marking: A semantics-morphosyntax interface phenomenon.- 5.1    Interaction of animacy and number marking across languages.-5.2 Factors interacting with verb number in Turkish.- 5.3 An Experimental Approach .-5.4 Effects of animacy on optional verb number marking: Testing monolingual speakers.- 5.5 Discussion.- 5.6 Conclusions.- 5.7    Effects of animacy on optional verb number marking: Testing bilingual speakers 151.- 5.8 Discussion.- 5.9 Conclusions.- 6 Measuring effects of topicality on verb number marking: A pragmatics-morphosyntax interface phenomenon.- 6.1 Interaction of discourse constraints and verb number marking in Turkish.- 6.2  Information structural properties in Turkish.-  6.3 Interaction of discourse constraints and morphosyntax across languages.- 6.4       Experimental Design.- 6.5  Effects of animacy on optional verb number marking: Testing monolingual speakers.- 6.6 Discussion.- 6.7 Conclusions.- 6.8  Effects of topicality on optional verb number marking: Testing bilingual speakers.- 6.9 General discussion and conclusions.- 6.10 Conclusions.- 7 Supporting evidence from categorical data.- 7.1 Experimental Design.- 7.2 Results.- 7.3 Conclusions.- 8. Putting things into a frame.- 8.1 Some MOGUL basics.- 8.2 Language acquisition in MOGUL.- 9. General discussion and conclusions.- 10.- Bibliography.- 11. Appendices.- 11.1 Appendix A: Output Tables.- 11.2 Appendix B: Individual characteristics of monolingual and bilingual participants.