bilingual acquisition methodology references

[Meiyun Chang-Smith]

Dear Bill,

It is exciting that you are undertaking a longitudinal study of simultaneous bilingual first language acquisition involving an East Asian language and English!

As you may have gathered already, systematic longitudinal case studies on such language pairs remain very scarce in the literature. Hence, your study could make a significant contribution to the field. My PhD thesis in 2005 involved longitudinal case studies on a monolingual Mandarin speaking child in Taipei and a simultaneous Mandarin-English bilingual child in Brisbane, with a specific focus on nominal expressions. This was published in April 2009 (see book reference below). I have also conducted a more detailed comparison of the grammatical development between the two case studies and the findings are going to be published in March 2010 (below). I hope you may find these works and the extensive literature review and references cited therein helpful.

Chang-Smith, Meiyun (2009). The Acquisition of Determiner Phrase in Early Child Mandarin: A Longitudinal Study of Two Mandarin Speaking Children. VDM publishers, Saarbruecken, Germany. ISBN: 978-3-639-12941-0.

Chang-Smith, Meiyun. (2010). First language acquisition of Mandarin Determiner Phrase: comparisons between monolingual Mandarin and simultaneous bilingual Mandarin-English children. International Journal of Bilingualism 14:1, 1-25.


All the best for the data collection!
Meiyun Chang-Smith


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Meiyun Crystal Chang-Smith, MAAppL, PhDLinguistics
Postdoctoral Research Fellow 
Queensland Brain Institute 
The University of Queensland 
Brisbane Qld 4072, Australia 

Phone: +61 7 3346 6883 
Fax:     +61 7 3346 3992
Email: m.changsmith at uq.edu.au 
Web: http://www.qbi.uq.edu.au/index.html?page=108983&pid=0 

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-----Original Message-----
From: info-childes at googlegroups.com on behalf of Bill Rago
Sent: Thu 12/31/2009 21:27
To: Info-CHILDES
Subject: bilingual acquisition methodology references
 
Hello info-CHILDES members, thanks in advance for your responses -
they are greatly appreciated.

I am interested in simultaneous bilingualism and the methodology used
to study it but I don't have extensive experience with the
literature.  My background is in TESOL so I haven't really read much
about the study of early language acquisition methodology (babbling,
first words).  I have a 7-month old son that's exposed to Korean and
English and I want to do a longitudinal case study of his dual
language development starting at 10 months and I am looking for other
studies or books that cover the methodology used to collect data,
methods of analysis, and transcription of the data.

Thank you and Happy New Year!

-Bill Rago

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