Aldona Sopata
Biographic Data
| ID | 2031933 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aldona Sopata |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aldona |
| FAMILY NAME | Sopata |
| SIGNATURE | SOPATA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0733-4455 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The other side of the coin
The impact of change of environment on Polish-German returnees' childhood languages. Effects of attrition and reinforcement on lexical knowledge
Null objects in Polish heritage language acquisition in contact with German
Aims and objectives: This study investigates the acquisition of referential expressions for direct objects by child heritage speakers of Polish living in Germany. Our main research questions are how object expression develops in bilingual children and whether their path or pace of acquisition differs from monolingual children. Methodology: We investigate the use of referential expressions in an elicited production task. In all, 39 Polish-German b…
Same or different? Subject realization in the majority and the heritage language of Polish-German bilingual children
The paper examines the extent to which bilingual children select lexical noun phrases and null and overt pronouns as referring expressions in their majority language German and their heritage language Polish. Both languages are similar regarding the availability of lexical noun phrases but differ in terms of the distribution of null and overt pronominal forms. Our focus lies on discourse contexts with a subject antecedent in the preceding clause,…
How unique is the linguistic situation of endangered language speakers
[Excerpt] The epistemological paper by Grenoble and Osipov (2023, henceforth G&O) focusing on linguistic effects of bilingualism in language shift ecologies reports “multiple kinds of variation in these endangered language communities” (p.1). According to the authors, the variation found in these languages is the result of the dynamics of language ecologies: “language choices and preferences change, as do speakers’ proficiency levels”. We would l…
The effects of language input on word order in German as a heritage and majority language
This study addresses the question of how the main factors related to input—including the environment in which children are exposed to both languages, the relative timing of the onset of the exposure to them and the amount of input—affect bilingual language acquisition at primary-school age. We examined the data of 42 German Polish bilinguals who had acquired German from birth and German monolinguals, comparing on the one hand simultaneous bilingu…
Age of Onset Effects in Child Bilingual Acquisition
This study investigates the effects of age of onset of acquisition (AO) and two other factors, chronological age of participants and language input, on sentence repetition performance. We focus on identifying the turning point for the effect of AO. Our analysis concerned sentence repetitions in German of 58 bilingual Polish-German children. The main findings were that AO and chronological age rather than cumulative input were significant predicto…
Cross-linguistic influence in the development of null arguments in early successive bilingual acquisition
The main goal of this study is to investigate the nature of null elements used in German by early successive bilingual Polish-German children. The language pair offers the opportunity to investigate the possibility of cross-linguistic influence in the area of null arguments between two languages which differ significantly in the nature of the null arguments allowed in the grammars. Longitudinal data from four bilingual children who were first exp…
Cross-linguistic influence in simultaneous and early sequential acquisition
Aims and objectives/purpose/research questions: The topic of cross-linguistic influence regarding the overt or null expression of arguments has been frequently considered regarding bilinguals acquiring language pairs in which the null option is licensed by one and not both of the two languages. The goal of this study is to investigate whether simultaneous and sequential bilinguals differ from monolinguals in the case of the acquisition of Polish …
Word Order in Complex Verb Phrases in Heritage Polish Spoken in Germany
This paper deals with word order in complex verb phrases consisting of auxiliaries and infinitive complements in heritage Polish. In Polish, infinitive complements normally follow auxiliaries, but discontinuous structures occur if required by the information structure. We investigate the occurrence and evaluation of adjacent and discontinuous word order patterns in relation to (a) the chronological age at testing and (b) the age of onset of the a…
Heritage Portuguese and Heritage Polish in Contact with German
This paper compares the production of different types of direct objects by Portuguese-German and Polish-German bilingual school-aged children in their heritage languages (HLs), Polish and European Portuguese (EP). Given that the two target languages display identical options of object realization, our main research question is whether the two HLs develop in a similar way in bilingual children. More precisely, we aim at investigating whether bilin…
Null objects in adult and child Polish
Heritage Portuguese and Heritage Polish in Contact with German
This paper compares the production of different types of direct objects by Portuguese-German and Polish-German bilingual school-aged children in their heritage languages (HLs), Polish and European Portuguese (EP). Given that the two target languages display identical options of object realization, our main research question is whether the two HLs develop in a similar way in bilingual children. More precisely, we aim at investigating whether bilin…
Word Order in Complex Verb Phrases in Heritage Polish Spoken in Germany
This paper deals with word order in complex verb phrases consisting of auxiliaries and infinitive complements in heritage Polish. In Polish, infinitive complements normally follow auxiliaries, but discontinuous structures occur if required by the information structure. We investigate the occurrence and evaluation of adjacent and discontinuous word order patterns in relation to (a) the chronological age at testing and (b) the age of onset of the a…
Null objects in adult and child Polish
Null objects in adult and child Polish
Heritage Portuguese and Heritage Polish in Contact with German
This paper compares the production of different types of direct objects by Portuguese-German and Polish-German bilingual school-aged children in their heritage languages (HLs), Polish and European Portuguese (EP). Given that the two target languages display identical options of object realization, our main research question is whether the two HLs develop in a similar way in bilingual children. More precisely, we aim at investigating whether bilin…
Cross-linguistic influence in the development of null arguments in early successive bilingual acquisition
The main goal of this study is to investigate the nature of null elements used in German by early successive bilingual Polish-German children. The language pair offers the opportunity to investigate the possibility of cross-linguistic influence in the area of null arguments between two languages which differ significantly in the nature of the null arguments allowed in the grammars. Longitudinal data from four bilingual children who were first exp…
Cross-linguistic influence in simultaneous and early sequential acquisition
Aims and objectives/purpose/research questions: The topic of cross-linguistic influence regarding the overt or null expression of arguments has been frequently considered regarding bilinguals acquiring language pairs in which the null option is licensed by one and not both of the two languages. The goal of this study is to investigate whether simultaneous and sequential bilinguals differ from monolinguals in the case of the acquisition of Polish …
Word Order in Complex Verb Phrases in Heritage Polish Spoken in Germany
This paper deals with word order in complex verb phrases consisting of auxiliaries and infinitive complements in heritage Polish. In Polish, infinitive complements normally follow auxiliaries, but discontinuous structures occur if required by the information structure. We investigate the occurrence and evaluation of adjacent and discontinuous word order patterns in relation to (a) the chronological age at testing and (b) the age of onset of the a…
The effects of language input on word order in German as a heritage and majority language
This study addresses the question of how the main factors related to input—including the environment in which children are exposed to both languages, the relative timing of the onset of the exposure to them and the amount of input—affect bilingual language acquisition at primary-school age. We examined the data of 42 German Polish bilinguals who had acquired German from birth and German monolinguals, comparing on the one hand simultaneous bilingu…
Age of Onset Effects in Child Bilingual Acquisition
This study investigates the effects of age of onset of acquisition (AO) and two other factors, chronological age of participants and language input, on sentence repetition performance. We focus on identifying the turning point for the effect of AO. Our analysis concerned sentence repetitions in German of 58 bilingual Polish-German children. The main findings were that AO and chronological age rather than cumulative input were significant predicto…
Same or different? Subject realization in the majority and the heritage language of Polish-German bilingual children
The paper examines the extent to which bilingual children select lexical noun phrases and null and overt pronouns as referring expressions in their majority language German and their heritage language Polish. Both languages are similar regarding the availability of lexical noun phrases but differ in terms of the distribution of null and overt pronominal forms. Our focus lies on discourse contexts with a subject antecedent in the preceding clause,…
How unique is the linguistic situation of endangered language speakers
[Excerpt] The epistemological paper by Grenoble and Osipov (2023, henceforth G&O) focusing on linguistic effects of bilingualism in language shift ecologies reports “multiple kinds of variation in these endangered language communities” (p.1). According to the authors, the variation found in these languages is the result of the dynamics of language ecologies: “language choices and preferences change, as do speakers’ proficiency levels”. We would l…
Null objects in Polish heritage language acquisition in contact with German
Aims and objectives: This study investigates the acquisition of referential expressions for direct objects by child heritage speakers of Polish living in Germany. Our main research questions are how object expression develops in bilingual children and whether their path or pace of acquisition differs from monolingual children. Methodology: We investigate the use of referential expressions in an elicited production task. In all, 39 Polish-German b…
The impact of change of environment on Polish-German returnees' childhood languages. Effects of attrition and reinforcement on lexical knowledge
The other side of the coin
Linguistics (11 works) · Psychology (11 works) · German (9 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Language Development and Disorders (6 works) · Mathematics (6 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (4 works) · Linguistic research and analysis (4 works) · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (4 works)