dominance

[Barbara Zurer Pearson]

Dear Jeanine,
Could you add me to your list for the preprint (or give us a link for where you can post it)?

Thank you.
Barbara

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  From: Martha Shiro 
  To: info-childes at googlegroups.com 
  Sent: Friday, March 26, 2010 10:54 AM
  Subject: Re: dominance


  Dear Jeanine,
  Can I have a pre-print of your article as well? Thanking you in advance
  Martha


  Martha Shiro
  Instituto de Filología "Andrés Bello"
  Universidad Central de Venezuela
  shiromartha at gmail.com
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    From: Jeanine Treffers-Daller 
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    Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2010 1:56 PM
    Subject: RE: dominance


    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
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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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