dominance

Fri Mar 26 17:58:31 UTC 2010

Perhaps you could attach the paper for all of us!
All best, Roberta Golinkoff

On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Henrietta Lempert <
lempert at psych.utoronto.ca> wrote:

> 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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> > 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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