Programme 75. StuTS

Heritage speakers and their competencies have long occupied studies of multilingualism (e.g. Polinsky 2018, Wiese et al 2022). While there are many works focussing on syntactic and lexical skills, the realm of hesitancy, disfluency and repair has been regarded mostly as an indicator of mistakes and proof of an “incomplete” acquisition process (Polinsky 2011, 2018). Since self-repair has been proven to be a systematic and recurring phenomenon, it could be reconceptualised as a skill and a regular practice in spoken language rather than an expression of error. Especially the act of self-initiated self-repair indicates the existence of a strong language monitor (Levelt 1989). Since there has been, to the best of my knowledge, no systematic research of heritage speakers` self-repair, the thesis that this talk is based on will start by taking stock of heritage speakers` and monolinguals` self-repair practices from a quantitative perspective: How much does each group repair and are there differences between the language groups?
To examine the distribution of self-repairs, the RUEG corpus was searched for self-interruptions. By adding a new annotation, two sub-corpora focussing on German (heritage speakers and monolinguals) and English self-repairs were created. In doing so, a first frequentist analysis of repair phenomena is possible while further analysis (quantitative or qualitative) will also be facilitated.
This talk will give a brief overview of some theoretical approaches to self-repair from a generative framework and then present the corpus analysis of German and English heritage speakers’ self-repair practices.

Bibliography
Levelt, W. J. M. (1989). Speaking: From intention to articulation. The MIT Press.
Polinsky, M. (2011). Reanalysis in adult heritage language. New evidence in support of attrition. In: Studies in second language acquisition 33. 305-328. doi: 10.1017/S027226311000077X .
Polinsky, M. (2018). Heritage Languages and Their Speakers. Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781107252349 .
Wiese, H., Alexiadou, A., Allen, S., Bunk, O., Gagarina, N., Iefremenko, K., Martynova, M., Pashkova, T., Rizou, V., Schroeder, C., Shadrova, A., Szucsich, L., Tracy, R., Tsehaye, W., Zerbian, S., & Zuban, Y. (2022). Heritage Speakers as Part of the Native Language Continuum. In Frontiers in Psychology (Vol. 12). Frontiers Media SA. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.717973 .

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Jour: 2024-05-10
Début: 14:00
Durée: 00:30
Salle: Squid (33.0.008)
Fil: Sociolinguistics
Langue: en

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