Question to the community

[Madalena Cruz-Ferreira]

Mental arithmetic works for me too, innumerate as I am.
But wouldn't prosody/intonation define your dominant language? If prosody is the basics of basics in child language acquisition and if you are defined by what you do spontaneously, like left-handedness, then is your dominant language must be the one whose prosody you use regardless of what words and syntax you're speaking. This is one reason why I have some difficulty with matrix vs. embedded approaches to multilingualism.
 
Madalena
 
Madalena Cruz-Ferreira
ellmcf at nus.edu.sg
 
 

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From: Charles Watkins [mailto:charles.watkins at wanadoo.fr] 
Sent: Thu 11/7/2002 11:58 AM 
To: lnpnwh; info-childes; Ellina Chernobilsky; Annette Karmiloff-Smith 
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Subject: Re: Question to the community



	I agree about mental arithmetic; but only because I am barely numerate, like
	many English arts graduates (you too?!).  However bilingual mathematicians I
	know claim they don't do mental arithmetic in either language but
	conceptually, which makes sense, I suppose,  if your numeracy skills are as
	advanced as most people's verbal skills - "which language do you think in?"
	doesn't make a lot of sense as a question to me.
	
	Charles Watkins.
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	De : lnpnwh <lnpnwh at leeds.ac.uk>
	: Charles Watkins <charles.watkins at wanadoo.fr>; info-childes
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	Date : mardi 5 novembre 2002 09:22
	Objet : Re: Question to the community