Ich brauche mix-cough: cross-linguistic influence involving German, English and Farsi

• Kerstin Kazzazi ^[1]
  1. [1] Catholic University of Eichstaett-Ingolstadt, Germany
• Localización: International journal of multilingualism, ISSN 1479-0718, Vol. 8, Nº. 1, 2011 (Ejemplar dedicado a: TRILINGUAL CHILDREN IN THE MAKING: DATA-DRIVEN INSIGHTS), págs. 63-79
• Idioma: inglés
• DOI: 10.1080/14790711003671879
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• Resumen

  • This paper deals with cross-linguistic influence (CLI) in early trilingualism involving the languages German, English and Farsi. The data come from the case study of the author's two children growing up in a trilingual family within a monolingual German-speaking environment. Specific types of CLI from the non-dominant language Farsi on German and English are explained as being triggered by structural features of Farsi that cater to general cognitive tendencies towards iconicity and transparency, thus providing a unifying conceptual explanation for what may be termed minority influence.