<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dear Maja<div><br></div><div>I have used some different combinations of measures for determining language dominance in bilingual children. Here is a list of papers where myself and my colleagues have employed these combinations. Essentially, I believe the best way to determine the dominant - more proficient - language is by using measures from more than one linguistic domain - at least one vocabulary and one morphosyntax measure.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Johanne</div><div><br></div><div><!--StartFragment--><p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops:36.0pt 72.0pt 108.0pt 144.0pt 180.0pt 216.0pt 252.0pt 288.0pt 324.0pt 360.0pt 396.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Century Schoolbook"">Foroodi Nejad</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Century Schoolbook"">, F., & Paradis, J. (2009).
Crosslinguistic transfer in the acquisition of compound words in Farsi-English
bilinguals. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Bilingualism: Language and
Cognition, </i>12, 411-427. </span></p>
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Nicoladis, E. (2007). The influence of dominance and sociolinguistic context on
bilingual preschoolers’ language choice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">The International Journal of
Bilingualism and Bilingual Education, </i>10, 1-21.<i style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal"> </i><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops:36.0pt 72.0pt 108.0pt 144.0pt 180.0pt 216.0pt 252.0pt 288.0pt 324.0pt 360.0pt 396.0pt"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Century Schoolbook'" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">
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M., Genesee, F. & Rice, M. (2003).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Bilingual children with specific language impairment:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>How do they compare with their
monolingual peers?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Journal of Speech,</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal">Language and Hearing Research,</i>46, 1-15.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</div><div><!--StartFragment--><p class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops:36.0pt 72.0pt 108.0pt 144.0pt 180.0pt 216.0pt 252.0pt 288.0pt 324.0pt 360.0pt 396.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Century Schoolbook"">Genesee, F.,
Nicoladis, E. & Paradis, J. (1995).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</span>Language differentiation in early bilingual development.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Journal
of Child</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">Language</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">22</i>,<span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span>611-631. </span></p><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div><div><div>On 2010-03-25, at 8:40 AM, Maja Roch wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Hello,<br>is anybody familiar with some possible criteria to be adopted for<br>establishing a dominant language of a bilingual child?<br>Best regards,<br>Maja Roch<br><br>-- <br>You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Info-CHILDES" group.<br>To post to this group, send email to <a href="mailto:info-childes@googlegroups.com">info-childes@googlegroups.com</a>.<br>To unsubscribe from this group, send email to <a href="mailto:info-childes+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com">info-childes+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com</a>.<br>For more options, visit this group at <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/info-childes?hl=en">http://groups.google.com/group/info-childes?hl=en</a>.<br><br></div></blockquote></div><br><div>
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