dominant language

[Susan Ervin-Tripp]

Dominance turns out to be a good predictor in bilingual semantics and
memory, at least in adults, so it is not a useless concept. Naming speed has
been
in use since Lampert more than fifty years ago, so there should be a lot of
evidence on its correlations with other measures by now. Since children are
sensitive to the language abilities of interlocutors surprisingly early, any
testing has to be done by speakers that the child has heard use both
languages in similar situations. Setting and situation matter to children.

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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