dominance

[Aliyah MORGENSTERN]

Could you also add me?
Best,
Aliyah MORGENSTERN

Professeur de linguistique
Université Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3
Institut du Monde Anglophone
5 rue de l'Ecole de Médecine
75006 Paris




Le 26 mars 10 à 17:48, Henrietta Lempert a écrit :

> Could you kindly add me to your preprint/link list?
> Many thanks,
> Henrietta
>> 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
>> =========================
>> 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
>>
>> ________________________________
>> 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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