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A case study of a quadrilingual child: The influence of exposure and cognates when developing multiple languages
Linnaeus University, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Department of Swedish Language. Lund University, Sweden.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-4329-4542
Linnaeus University, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Department of Swedish Language. Linnaeus University, Linnaeus Knowledge Environments, Education in Change. (EdLing)ORCID iD: 0000-0002-9916-5950
2021 (English)In: Language Impairment in Multilingual Settings: LITMUS in action across Europe / [ed] Sharon Armon-Lotem; Kleanthes K. Grohmann, John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2021, p. 78-97Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

This paper reports on a case study of a quadrilingual child, Stefan, born and raised in Sweden and exposed to four languages before his first birthday: English, French, Russian and Swedish. We examine his vocabularies in these languages by the Cross-Linguistic Lexical Tasks (Haman, Łuniewska, & Pomiechowska, 2015), designed to measure vocabulary in monolingual and multilingual children. Stefan’s scores on comprehension and production reveal proficiency in all his languages, to varying degrees, and with comprehension exceeding production. While highlighting direct and indirect exposure as explanation for the variation in proficiency, we also discuss cognate vocabulary as an important factor for multilingual language development. In the production tasks, Stefan demonstrates not only vocabulary knowledge but also language-specific use of morphosyntax.

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John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2021. p. 78-97
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Trends in Language Acquisition Research, ISSN 1569-0644 ; 29
Keywords [en]
simultaneous multilingualism, quadrilingual, Cross-Linguistic Lexical Tasks, vocabulary, exposure, cognates, distributed vocabulary
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General Language Studies and Linguistics
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Humanities
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URN: urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-110660DOI: 10.1075/tilar.29.03hakScopus ID: 2-s2.0-85120687559OAI: oai:DiVA.org:lnu-110660DiVA, id: diva2:1641281
Available from: 2022-03-01 Created: 2022-03-01 Last updated: 2023-03-15Bibliographically approved

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