Literature on production vs. receptive language?

[Annick De Houwer]

Dear William, Helen and other members--

The case that William adduces is similar to that of many children who grew 
up hearing two languages from birth but learned to speak only one of them 
fluently (a common case - see my 2009 book on Bilingual First Language 
Acquisition). The other language could then be not produced at all, or just 
in single words, or in two word utterances, even when the child is 4 or 5. 
Preschool aged children who did say something at least in this "other" 
language have been reported to become fluent speakers of the language in 
about a week after they were in changed circumstances (for instance, when 
they went on vacation and HAD to use the hitherto hardly used language in 
order to be understood). There are very few linguist-documented cases, 
though, and details about precisely which structures are then being used 
are, to my knowledge, lacking.

Best to all,
Annick

Annick De Houwer, PhD
University of Erfurt, Germany and NICHHD, USA
European Research Network on Bilingual Studies ERBIS, www.erbis.org 

On Saturday, February 16, 2013 1:17:28 PM UTC+1, William wrote:
>
> Dear Helen (et al.) 
>
> Karin Stromswold has done some potentially relevant work on the 
> syntactic abilities (in comprehension) of a child who, during his 
> pre-school years, was producing only one-word utterances, but who 
> tested normally on comprehension measures of syntax. What I don't 
> recall is whether she tested him on RCs.... 
>
> With best wishes, 
>
> William 
>
> On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 8:50 PM, yvne... at gmail.com <javascript:> 
> <yvne... at gmail.com <javascript:>> wrote: 
> > Dear All, 
> > 
> > I am interested in research into how much production is relevant for 
> > language acquisition (e.g. does a child need to actually produce 
> relative 
> > clauses in order to acquire them? Might he have a full representation of 
> RCs 
> > in his grammar, but never have uttered one?).  I'm interested in the 
> > relationship of production to acquisition in general with respect to 
> syntax 
> > and morphology. 
> > 
> > Is there literature that makes specific claims about this?  I welcome 
> > feedback from both theoretical and clinical perspectives. 
> > 
> > Any references you can point me toward are greatly appreciated. 
> > 
> > Best, 
> > 
> > Helen Stickney 
> > 
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