dominance

[sbresee at umd.edu]

Professor Treffers-Daller and Professor Shiro, 
Please send a pre-print or copy of your articles if possible. I am very interested in the current research on ways to observe and analyze language development in naturalistic settings.
Thank you, 
Susan Bresee
sbresee at umd.edu 

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>Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 10:54:33 -0400
>From: "Martha Shiro" <shiromartha at gmail.com>  
>Subject: Re: dominance  
>To: <info-childes at googlegroups.com>
>
>   Dear Jeanine,
>   Can I have a pre-print of your article as well?
>   Thanking you in advance
>   Martha
>    
>    
>   Martha Shiro
>   Instituto de FilologAa "AndrA(c)s Bello"
>   Universidad Central de Venezuela
>   shiromartha at gmail.com
>
>     ----- Original Message -----
>     From: Jeanine Treffers-Daller
>     To: info-childes at googlegroups.com
>     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 DurA!n, 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
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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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