Demonstratives in Spanish–Catalan simultaneous bilinguals: which system do they prefer?

Emanuela Todisco; Pedro Guijarro Fuentes; Harmen B. Gudde; Kenny Coventry

Demonstratives in Spanish–Catalan simultaneous bilinguals: which system do they prefer?

Emanuela Todisco ^[1] ; Pedro Guijarro-Fuentes ^[1] ; Harmen B. Gudde ^[3] ; Kenny R. Coventry ^[2]
1. [1] Universitat de les Illes Balears
  
  Universitat de les Illes Balears
  
  Palma de Mallorca, España
2. [2] University of East Anglia
  
  University of East Anglia
  
  Norwich District, Reino Unido
3. [3] University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK; Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Localización: Bilingualism: Language and cognition, ISSN 1366-7289, Vol. 28, Nº 1, 2025, págs. 31-42
Idioma: inglés
DOI: 10.1017/S1366728924000051
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Resumen
- Demonstratives are cross-linguistically widespread deictic expressions. Demonstrative systems exhibit variation in number of terms, and parameters affecting their usage. The present paper assesses the relationship between spatial deixis and bilingualism: how language dominance affects speakers of two languages with different demonstrative systems. Here, we compare the use of demonstratives by 72 European Spanish-Catalan simultaneous bilinguals in Mallorca to 30 European Spanish monolinguals. Our results confirmed a significant effect of physical distance between speaker and referent on demonstrative choice in both languages, and differences between languages in the use of the middle term. We did not find the expected effect of language dominance in simultaneous bilinguals. Moreover, we found no influence of the hearer's position on demonstrative choice in monolinguals or bilinguals in European Spanish or Majorcan Catalan. In view of our results, the present study contributes to the debate on how bilingual speakers employ different deictic expressions.
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