Literature on production vs. receptive language?

[William Snyder]

Interesting point!

- William

On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 3:52 PM, Annick De Houwer <annickej at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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
>> <yvne... at gmail.com> 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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