dominant language

[Darin]

Hello Maja -

In addition to the previous suggestions, you might also consider
asking them what they feel most comfortable with (depending, of
course, on their age).  I agree that "dominance" may not be as clear
cut as it seems, especially for children whose school language is
different from their home language.  They may be more comfortable with
certain vocabulary, tasks, contexts, etc. in one language over
another, regardless of which one may appear to be dominant.

- Darin Woolpert
SDSU/UCSD Joint Doctoral Program
Language and Communicative Disorders


On Mar 25, 4:58 pm, Aliyah MORGENSTERN <aliyah.morgenst... at gmail.com>
wrote:
> I would be very interested to!
> Aliyah MORGENSTERN
>
> Professeur de linguistique
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> Le 25 mars 10 à 15:46, Erika Hoff a écrit :
>
> > 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
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: info-childes at googlegroups.com [mailto:info-childes at googlegroups.com
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> > On Behalf Of Maja Roch
> > Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2010 10:41 AM
> > To: Info-CHILDES
> > Subject: dominant language
>
> > 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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