dominance

[Erika Hoff]

Dear Jeanine,

 

I would very much like a preprint as well.

 

Many thanks,

 

Erika Hoff

ehoff at fau.edu

 

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On Behalf Of Miguel Pérez Pereira
Sent: Friday, March 26, 2010 5:21 AM
To: info-childes at googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: dominance

 

Dear Jeanine,

Will you be so kind of sending me an advance copy of your paper?

Thank you

Miguel

El 25/03/2010, a las 18:56, Jeanine Treffers-Daller escribió:





Dear Maja

I have proposed a measure based on indices of lexical richness, which can be
used with children as well as adults.

This article will appear next year in the International Journal of
Bilingualism.

 

Treffers-Daler, J. (in press) Operationalising and measuring language
dominance.

 

Can send you an advance copy if you're interested.

 

best wishes

Jeanine

Abstract

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.

 

best wishes

Jeanine

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Professor Jeanine Treffers-Daller

Professor of Linguistics

Department of Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies

School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences

Faculty of Social Science and Humanities

Frenchay Campus

Coldharbour Lane

Bristol

BS16 1QY

tel. 00-44-117-3282390

Room 4D02

 

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From: info-childes at googlegroups.com [info-childes at googlegroups.com] On
Behalf Of Brian MacWhinney [macw at cmu.edu]
Sent: 25 March 2010 16:31
To: CHILDES
Subject: dominance

Dear Maja,

    We've proposed using Mean Length Utterance differentials as a measure of
language dominance:

Yip, Virginia and Stephen Matthews. 2007.The Bilingual Child: Early
Development and Language Contact. Cambridge University Press. (Ch.3:
Methodology)
Yip, Virginia and Stephen Matthews. 2006. Assessing language dominance in
bilingual acquisition: a case for Mean Length Utterance differentials.
Language Assessment Quarterly 3: 97-116.

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).

Virginia 
Childhood Bilingualism Research Centre
Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages
Chinese University of Hong Kong
http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/lin/cbrc/

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Universidade de Santiago de Compostela

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