C03 - Reference management in bilingual narratives - CRC1252 (Prominence in Language)

Our project C03 examines variation in the encoding of prominence by analyzing the production of referring expressions in discourse by bilingual children. We focus on two aspects of this variation. On the one hand, different bilingual profiles in terms of language and literacy exposure have a varying impact on bilinguals' cognitive and linguistic skills (executive functions, theory of mind, metalinguistic awareness, etc.). On the other hand, different language combinations (English-Greek, English-Italian, Greek-Italian) give rise to diverse patterns of cross-linguistic influence between the two bilinguals' languages. The aim of this project is to show how both aspects of variation are reflected in individual strategies of reference production. For a brief introduction to the project, see