dominance

[Henrietta Lempert]

Could you kindly add me to your preprint/link list?
Many thanks,
Henrietta
> Dear Maja
> I have proposed a measure based on indices of lexical richness, which can
> be used with children as well as adults.
> This article will appear next year in the International Journal of
> Bilingualism.
>
> Treffers-Daler, J. (in press) Operationalising and measuring language
> dominance.
>
> Can send you an advance copy if you're interested.
>
> best wishes
> Jeanine
> Abstract
> The aim of this article is to show how measures of lexical richness
> (Guiraud 1954; Malvern, Richards, Chipere and Durán, 2004) can be used to
> operationalise and measure language dominance among bilinguals. A typology
> of bilinguals is proposed based on these measures of lexical richness, and
> the validity of the typology is then investigated in an empirical study
> among two groups of bilingual informants with different language dominance
> profiles (25 Dutch-French bilinguals from Brussels and 24 French-English
> bilinguals from Paris). The most important advantage of the proposed
> operationalisation is that it allows researchers carry out precise
> measurements of bilingual ability in languages or language varieties for
> which no standardised tests exist and that these measures can be
> calculated on oral data that have been collected in an informal and
> unobtrusive way, in a naturalistic setting.
>
> best wishes
> Jeanine
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> Professor of Linguistics
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> From: info-childes at googlegroups.com [info-childes at googlegroups.com] On
> Behalf Of Brian MacWhinney [macw at cmu.edu]
> Sent: 25 March 2010 16:31
> To: CHILDES
> Subject: dominance
>
> Dear Maja,
>
>     We've proposed using Mean Length Utterance differentials as a measure
> of language dominance:
>
> Yip, Virginia and Stephen Matthews. 2007.The Bilingual Child: Early
> Development and Language Contact. Cambridge University Press. (Ch.3:
> Methodology)
> Yip, Virginia and Stephen Matthews. 2006. Assessing language dominance in
> bilingual acquisition: a case for Mean Length Utterance differentials.
> Language Assessment Quarterly 3: 97-116.
>
> While absolute MLU comparisons are of questionable validity due to
> morphological differences between languages and how they are transcribed,
> MLU differentials can be used effectively to compare different children
> acquiring the same language pair, or different stages of development in
> the same child. In some domains there is evidence that the prevalence of
> cross-linguistic influence depends on the degree of dominance (see Yip and
> Matthews 2007: 150 for the case of null objects).
>
> Virginia
> Childhood Bilingualism Research Centre
> Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages
> Chinese University of Hong Kong
> http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/lin/cbrc/
>
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