Reference management in bilingual narratives (C03)

• Subject Area: General and Comparative Linguistics, Experimental Linguistics, Typology, Non-European Languages
• Term: since 2017
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 281511265

The present project aims to examine bilingual children’s prominence-management behaviour in contexts in which they have the possibility to use all their language resources flexibly when involved in dialogues or story-telling activities in which they and their interlocutors code-switch constantly. In particular, the analysis of code-switching will provide new insights into how they represent prominence structures and discourse layers in their minds. We intend to observe bilingual communication as it unfolds in natural circumstances, whereby children are free to make meaning based on their more or less conscious language preferences, align to the preferences of their interlocutors and develop strategies to resolve challenges in communication.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1252: Prominence in Language
• Applicant Institution: Universität zu Köln
• Project Heads: Professorin Dr. Christiane Bongartz; Professor Dr. Jacopo Torregrossa