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Dijkman, Marleen Elisabeth (2018)

Conceptual Transfer among Dutch/Japanese adult bilinguals

Bachelor thesis | Japanstudies (BA)

In this study, conceptual transfer among the conceptualization of liquid containers of Dutch/Japanese bilingual users when using their first language (L1) has been examined. A naming task was performed with adult Dutch monolingual users, Japanese monolingual users and Dutch/Japanese bilingual users. No statistical evidence could be found of bilingual users to significantly differ from their monolingual counterparts during a naming task in their L1. Therefore, according to this study, it seems unlikely that bilingual participants undergo strong effects of backwards transfer. Nevertheless, there were indications of small-scale effects of conceptual transfer which could provide an interesting starting point for future research on conceptual transfer among Dutch/Japanese bilinguals.

Japanese

Linguistics

Backwards transfer

second language acqusition

conceptual transfer

bilingual

SLA

Author

Dijkman, Marleen Elisabeth

Faculty

Faculty of Humanities

Supervisors

Yoshioka, Keiko

ECTS Credits

10

Language

en