Abstract
This study charts the acquisition of Differential Object Marking (DOM) in Romanian by Hungarian-Romanian simultaneous bilinguals (2L1). The main finding is that these 2L1 children acquire the properties of the DOM system similarly to monolinguals, with only one difference deriving from descriptive DPs, with which marking is constrained by discourse-pragmatics. During the early stages, the 2L1 children inconsistently mark these DPs in comparison with age-matched monolinguals. Data from ‘frog story’ narratives of 4-year-old bilinguals reveal an increase in DOM use with these DPs. The results show that the vulnerability is selective and that it is overcome early. We explain our findings with reference to the syntax of DOM in Romanian and positive cross-linguistic influence from Hungarian.
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