Question to the community

[Alcock, Katie]

But some bilinguals use e.g. English prosody in English and French prosody
in French.  And others have almost completely lost their first language
apart from the accent (including the prosody).

Katie Alcock


Katie Alcock, DPhil
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Madalena Cruz-Ferreira [mailto:ellmcf at nus.edu.sg]
> Sent: 07 November 2002 02:28
> To: info-childes at mail.talkbank.org
> Subject: RE: Question to the community
>
>
> Mental arithmetic works for me too, innumerate as I am.
> But wouldn't prosody/intonation define your dominant
> language? If prosody is the basics of basics in child
> language acquisition and if you are defined by what you do
> spontaneously, like left-handedness, then is your dominant
> language must be the one whose prosody you use regardless of
> what words and syntax you're speaking. This is one reason why
> I have some difficulty with matrix vs. embedded approaches to
> multilingualism.
>
> Madalena
>
> Madalena Cruz-Ferreira
> ellmcf at nus.edu.sg
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charles Watkins [mailto:charles.watkins at wanadoo.fr]
> Sent: Thu 11/7/2002 11:58 AM
> To: lnpnwh; info-childes; Ellina Chernobilsky; Annette
> Karmiloff-Smith
> Cc:
> Subject: Re: Question to the community
>
>
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> 	I agree about mental arithmetic; but only because I am
> barely numerate, like
> 	many English arts graduates (you too?!).  However
> bilingual mathematicians I
> 	know claim they don't do mental arithmetic in either
> language but
> 	conceptually, which makes sense, I suppose,  if your
> numeracy skills are as
> 	advanced as most people's verbal skills - "which
> language do you think in?"
> 	doesn't make a lot of sense as a question to me.
> 	
> 	Charles Watkins.
> 	-----Message d'origine-----
> 	De : lnpnwh <lnpnwh at leeds.ac.uk>
> 	: Charles Watkins <charles.watkins at wanadoo.fr>; info-childes
> 	<info-childes at mail.talkbank.org>; Ellina Chernobilsky
> 	<ellinac at email.eden.rutgers.edu>; Annette Karmiloff-Smith
> 	<a.karmiloff-smith at ich.ucl.ac.uk>
> 	Date : mardi 5 novembre 2002 09:22
> 	Objet : Re: Question to the community
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