{"id":1876,"date":"2024-07-26T09:01:36","date_gmt":"2024-07-26T13:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pamlab\/?p=1876"},"modified":"2024-07-26T09:02:48","modified_gmt":"2024-07-26T13:02:48","slug":"kpogo-kohut-chang-in-lsp-volume","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pamlab\/2024\/07\/26\/kpogo-kohut-chang-in-lsp-volume\/","title":{"rendered":"Kpogo, Kohut &#038; Chang in LSP volume"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A\u00a0paper\u00a0entitled <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.5281\/zenodo.12090432\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">&#8220;Expressing diminutive meaning in heritage Twi: The role of complexity and language-specific preferences&#8221;<\/a> (Kpogo, Kohut, &amp; Chang, 2024) has been published by Language Science Press in the edited volume <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.5281\/zenodo.12073160\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i>Formal Approaches to Complexity in Heritage Language Grammars<\/i><\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Abstract<\/span>: Twi (Akan) and English can both express diminutive meaning using a morphological strategy (diminutive suffix) or a syntactic strategy (adjectival construction), but they differ with respect to native-speaker preferences &#8212; morphological in Twi, syntactic in English. Each strategy in Twi, moreover, is associated with different types of complexity (morphological, phonological, lexical, discourse-pragmatic, and\/or inhibitory). In this study, we examined whether English-dominant, second-generation (G2) speakers of Twi in the US would express diminutive meaning in Twi differently from first-generation (G1) speakers. Results from elicited production suggest that G2 does indeed differ from G1 in this respect: whereas G1 relies on the morphological strategy, G2 relies on the syntactic strategy, producing adjectives post-nominally in accordance with Twi syntax. These results are discussed in light of variation in G2 speakers&#8217; morphological awareness and verbal fluency in Twi. Overall, our findings suggest that both the incremental complexity of linguistic options within a bilingual language repertoire and cross-linguistic influence at the level of preferences play a role in explaining G2&#8217;s diminutive production.<\/p>\n<p>This study followed Open Science practices, and all data and materials are publicly accessible via the Open Science Framework at <a href=\"https:\/\/osf.io\/wgqcm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/osf.io\/wgqcm\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A\u00a0paper\u00a0entitled &#8220;Expressing diminutive meaning in heritage Twi: The role of complexity and language-specific preferences&#8221; (Kpogo, Kohut, &amp; Chang, 2024) has been published by Language Science Press in the edited volume Formal Approaches to Complexity in Heritage Language Grammars. Abstract: Twi (Akan) and English can both express diminutive meaning using a morphological strategy (diminutive suffix) or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10698,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,13,3,6],"tags":[18,96,20,97],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pamlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1876"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pamlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pamlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pamlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10698"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pamlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1876"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pamlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1878,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pamlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1876\/revisions\/1878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pamlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pamlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/pamlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}