Periodic Reporting for period 1 - CLICK (Cross-Linguistic Influence of Competing Knowledge (CLICK): Comparative Morphosyntactic Variations in Heritage Language Development)
Okres sprawozdawczy: 2020-10-01 do 2022-09-30
RO1. To determine whether HSs in different language contact situations differ from each other in their interpretation of overt and null pronouns as a result of CLI from the societal languages and/or general effects of bilingualism. Furthermore, we seek to investigate whether or not the difference can be meaningfully teased apart by bringing together typologically different languages of the sort included in CLICK.
RO2. To establish if a novel methodology which combines online and offline measures in the same task offers a promising test battery to better capture underlying grammars of HSs in different language contact situations.
More specifically, we focused on three main areas of theoretical and methodological relevance: i) the interpretation of intrasentential anaphora in the context of HLB in an understudied HL; Persian in distinct language pairings with French, Spanish, English, Norwegian and German. ii) offer new insights related to CLI as a language-external factor on HL outcome in different language contact situations and subsequently contribute to teasing apart generalized bilingual effects from CLI-specific ones. It should be noted that whatever the two groups share in common might be viewed as generalized bilingual effects iii) contribute to the methodological trend of combining offline and online procedures to have a stronger profile of results to address the differences in HLB. Taken together, this project provides enduring and cutting-edge discoveries of the underlying representation of HL grammars and the influence of competing grammatical representations.
o Published
Gharibi, K., & Mirvahedi, S. H. (2021). ‘You are Iranian even if you were born on the moon’: family language policies of the Iranian diaspora in the UK. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1-16.
When I started my MSCA, this article from my British Academy project (06/2018-09/2020) was published in a high impact journal.
Rothman, J., Bayram, F., DeLuca, V., Di Pisa, G., Dunabeitia, J. A., Gharibi, K., Hao, J., Kolb, N., Kubota, M., Kupisch, T., Laméris, T., Luque, A., van Osch, B., Miguel Pereira Soares, S., Prystauka, Y., Tat, D., Tomić, A., Voits, T., Wulff, S. (2022). Monolingual comparative normativity in bilingualism research is out of “control”: Arguments and alternatives. Applied Psycholinguistics, 1-14.
Our team in the PoLaR Lab published a pioneering paper on why we should not use monolingual control groups in studies of bilingualism. This has been a step forward in applying the right methodology in studying heritage speakers.
Gharibi, K. Applying Research. In S, Benson, & N. Madarbakus-Ring. (Eds). Modern English Teacher, 31(1), 77 https://www.modernenglishteacher.com/applying-the- research-1
This was a collaboration with some of my colleagues in New Zealand.
o Forthcoming
Gharibi, K., Bayram, F., & Guajardo, G. (forthcoming). Lexical and Morphosyntactic Variation in Persian Heritage Language Outcomes. Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism.
This article is also based on my British Academy project and PhD project which will be published soon in collaboration with my colleagues at AcqVa Aurora research group at UiT.
Martín-Villena, F., Gharibi, K. & Rothman, J. (forthcoming). Null and Overt Pronouns. In T. Ionin, S. Montrul and R. Slabakova (Eds). The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition, Morphosyntax and Semantics.
My MSCA mentor Jason Rothman, my colleague and I wrote this chapter in the handbook on the literature and discussion of null an overt pronouns and anaphora resolution in different language pairings. This has been a learning curve for me as it was related to my MSCA project which is focused on anaphora resolution in heritage speakers in different language contact situations.
Note: we are trying different analyses. in a few months, I will have more data and will be able to present more concrete results.