dominant language

[Ekaterina Smyk]

The first question here is how language dominance is defined. Sometimes
language dominance is used interchangeably with language proficiency due to
a definition of language dominance in terms of the relative proficiency in
two languages. However, these two constructs can be distinguished in terms
of psycholinguistic properties (See Birdsong (2006) Dominance, proficiency,
and second language grammatical processing in *Applied Psycholinguistics*).
Often language dominance implies the superior performance on measures of
fluency, speed, automaticity, and accuracy in processing. For example, in
order to be a highly proficient in a certain language a speaker does have to
be dominant in that language. In addition, assessment of language dominance
is frequently based on the underlying assumption of uniform superior
performance in the dominant language. However, dominance in one aspect of
the language does not necessarily imply dominance in others.

Katya

On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 7:40 AM, Maja Roch <majaroch at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> is anybody familiar with some possible criteria to be adopted for
> establishing a dominant language of a bilingual child?
> Best regards,
> Maja Roch
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