Perhaps you could attach the paper for all of us!<br>All best, Roberta Golinkoff<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 12:48 PM, Henrietta Lempert <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lempert@psych.utoronto.ca">lempert@psych.utoronto.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">Could you kindly add me to your preprint/link list?<br>
Many thanks,<br>
Henrietta<br>
> Dear Maja<br>
> I have proposed a measure based on indices of lexical richness, which can<br>
> be used with children as well as adults.<br>
> This article will appear next year in the International Journal of<br>
> Bilingualism.<br>
><br>
> Treffers-Daler, J. (in press) Operationalising and measuring language<br>
> dominance.<br>
><br>
> Can send you an advance copy if you're interested.<br>
><br>
> best wishes<br>
> Jeanine<br>
> Abstract<br>
> The aim of this article is to show how measures of lexical richness<br>
> (Guiraud 1954; Malvern, Richards, Chipere and Durán, 2004) can be used to<br>
> operationalise and measure language dominance among bilinguals. A typology<br>
> of bilinguals is proposed based on these measures of lexical richness, and<br>
> the validity of the typology is then investigated in an empirical study<br>
> among two groups of bilingual informants with different language dominance<br>
> profiles (25 Dutch-French bilinguals from Brussels and 24 French-English<br>
> bilinguals from Paris). The most important advantage of the proposed<br>
> operationalisation is that it allows researchers carry out precise<br>
> measurements of bilingual ability in languages or language varieties for<br>
> which no standardised tests exist and that these measures can be<br>
> calculated on oral data that have been collected in an informal and<br>
> unobtrusive way, in a naturalistic setting.<br>
><br>
> best wishes<br>
> Jeanine<br>
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> From: <a href="mailto:info-childes@googlegroups.com">info-childes@googlegroups.com</a> [<a href="mailto:info-childes@googlegroups.com">info-childes@googlegroups.com</a>] On<br>
> Behalf Of Brian MacWhinney [<a href="mailto:macw@cmu.edu">macw@cmu.edu</a>]<br>
> Sent: 25 March 2010 16:31<br>
> To: CHILDES<br>
> Subject: dominance<br>
><br>
> Dear Maja,<br>
><br>
> We've proposed using Mean Length Utterance differentials as a measure<br>
> of language dominance:<br>
><br>
> Yip, Virginia and Stephen Matthews. 2007.The Bilingual Child: Early<br>
> Development and Language Contact. Cambridge University Press. (Ch.3:<br>
> Methodology)<br>
> Yip, Virginia and Stephen Matthews. 2006. Assessing language dominance in<br>
> bilingual acquisition: a case for Mean Length Utterance differentials.<br>
> Language Assessment Quarterly 3: 97-116.<br>
><br>
> While absolute MLU comparisons are of questionable validity due to<br>
> morphological differences between languages and how they are transcribed,<br>
> MLU differentials can be used effectively to compare different children<br>
> acquiring the same language pair, or different stages of development in<br>
> the same child. In some domains there is evidence that the prevalence of<br>
> cross-linguistic influence depends on the degree of dominance (see Yip and<br>
> Matthews 2007: 150 for the case of null objects).<br>
><br>
> Virginia<br>
> Childhood Bilingualism Research Centre<br>
> Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages<br>
> Chinese University of Hong Kong<br>
> <a href="http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/lin/cbrc/" target="_blank">http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/lin/cbrc/</a><br>
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