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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dear Jeanine,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Could you add me to your list for the preprint (or
give us a link for where you can post it)?</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Thank you.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Barbara</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
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<A title=shiromartha@gmail.com href="mailto:shiromartha@gmail.com">Martha
Shiro</A> </DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, March 26, 2010 10:54
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: dominance</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dear Jeanine,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Can I have a pre-print of your article as well?
Thanking you in advance</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Martha</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Martha Shiro<BR>Instituto de Filología "Andrés
Bello"<BR>Universidad Central de Venezuela<BR><A
href="mailto:shiromartha@gmail.com">shiromartha@gmail.com</A></FONT></DIV>
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<A title=Jeanine.Treffers-Daller@uwe.ac.uk
href="mailto:Jeanine.Treffers-Daller@uwe.ac.uk">Jeanine Treffers-Daller</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, March 25, 2010 1:56
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> RE: dominance</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>Dear Maja</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=tahoma size=2>I have proposed a measure based on indices of
lexical richness, which can be used with children as well as
adults.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=tahoma size=2>This article will appear next year in the
International Journal of Bilingualism.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=tahoma size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=tahoma size=2>Treffers-Daler, J. (in press) Operationalising
and measuring language dominance.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=tahoma size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=tahoma size=2>Can send you an advance copy if you're
interested.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=tahoma size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=tahoma size=2>best wishes</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=tahoma size=2>Jeanine</FONT></DIV>
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lang=EN-US><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3>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. </FONT></SPAN></P>
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<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>best wishes</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=tahoma size=2>Jeanine</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>=========================</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>Professor Jeanine
Treffers-Daller</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=tahoma size=2>Professor of Linguistics</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=tahoma size=2>Department of Languages, Linguistics and Area
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<FONT face=Tahoma color=#000000 size=2><B>From:</B>
info-childes@googlegroups.com [info-childes@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of
Brian MacWhinney [macw@cmu.edu]<BR><B>Sent:</B> 25 March 2010
16:31<BR><B>To:</B> CHILDES<BR><B>Subject:</B>
dominance<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<DIV>Dear Maja,<BR><BR> We've proposed using Mean
Length Utterance differentials as a measure of language
dominance:<BR><BR>Yip, Virginia and Stephen Matthews. 2007.The Bilingual
Child: Early Development and Language Contact. Cambridge University Press.
(Ch.3: Methodology)<BR>Yip, Virginia and Stephen Matthews. 2006. Assessing
language dominance in<BR>bilingual acquisition: a case for Mean Length
Utterance differentials. Language Assessment Quarterly 3:
97-116.<BR><BR>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).<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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