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Title: Contrastive Focus 'Is' Acquirable: An Investigation of Russian Contrastive Focus with English/Russian Bilinguals
Language: English
Authors: Tania Ionin (ORCID 0000-0002-4360-8644), Tatiana Luchkina, Maria Goldshtein
Source: Second Language Research. 2024 40(3):709-737.
Availability: SAGE Publications. 2455 Teller Road, Thousand Oaks, CA 91320. Tel: 800-818-7243; Tel: 805-499-9774; Fax: 800-583-2665; e-mail: journals@sagepub.com; Web site: https://sagepub.com
Peer Reviewed: Y
Page Count: 29
Publication Date: 2024
Document Type: Journal Articles
Reports - Research
Descriptors: Russian, English, Adults, Language Dominance, Second Language Learning, Comparative Analysis, Language Proficiency, Cues, Contrastive Linguistics, Intonation, Suprasegmentals, Speech Communication, Transfer of Training, Bilingualism, Task Analysis, Decision Making, Syntax, Heritage Education, Participant Characteristics, Age Differences, English (Second Language), Immigrants, Language Tests
DOI: 10.1177/02676583231178101
ISSN: 0267-6583
1477-0326
Abstract: This article reports on two experiments that examine the computation of contrastive focus in Russian on the part of adult English-dominant heritage speakers and second language learners of Russian, in comparison with baseline monolinguals. The first experiment uses an acceptability judgment task to determine whether bilingual and monolingual speakers use both contextual and prosodic cues to determine the location of contrastive focus. A follow-up experiment uses two prominence detection tasks in order to separately examine participants' sensitivity to contextual vs. prosodic cues. The findings indicate that, at higher proficiency, bilingual speakers of Russian successfully use both contextual and prosodic cues to contrastive focus; with proficiency controlled for, heritage speakers do not have an advantage over second language learners in this domain. These findings are discussed in light of cross-linguistic influence and interface vulnerability.
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