dominant language

[Barbara Pearson]

Also, Paradis and Genesee (and colleagues) have some work where they  
track dominance that differs in more than one modality.

(Btw, I'm comfortable with just a rough balance based on time in each  
language.  For many purposes, it tells you what you want to know, and  
it's better to take it into consideration than not to do so.)

Best wishes,
Barbara Pearson


On Mar 25, 2010, at 10:46 AM, Erika Hoff wrote:

> I'd look at work by Kohnert and by Jia and Aaronson because they  
> both talk
> about dominant language shift. I would be very interested if someone  
> has an
> argument for "dominance" and "balance" as anything other than  
> arbitrary
> distinctions. With respect to vocabulary, I find the full range of  
> ratios of
> one language to the other.
>
> Erika Hoff
>
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> Hello,
> is anybody familiar with some possible criteria to be adopted for
> establishing a dominant language of a bilingual child?
> Best regards,
> Maja Roch
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Research Associate, Depts of Linguistics and   Communication Disorders
c/o 226 South College
University of Massachusetts Amherst
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