Language Dominance in Bilinguals: Issues of Measurement and Operationalization

ISBN-13: 9781108718745 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 313 str.

Carmen Silva-Corvalan; Jeanine Treffers-Daller

Opis

With contributions from an international team of leading experts, this volume offers new ways to explore and measure language dominance.

Recenzje

'This ambitious book fills an important gap in bi- and multilingual research. Providing a well-motivated theoretical basis, it covers a broad variety of different ways of operationalising and measuring dominance.' Heidi Rontu, Aalto University, Finland

Spis treści

1. Digging into dominance: a closer look at language dominance in bilinguals Carmen Silva-Corvalán and Jeanine Treffers-Daller; 2. Dominance and proficiency in early and late bilingualism Silvina Montrul; 3. Related but different: the two concepts of language dominance and language proficiency Anika Schmeißer, Malin Hager, Laia Arnaus Gil, Veronika Jansen, Jasmin Geveler, Nadine Eichler, Marisa Patuto and Natascha Müller; 4. The complementarity principle and its impact on processing, acquisition, and dominance François Grosjean; 5. Dominance in bilingualism: foundations of measurement, with insights from the study of handedness David Birdsong; 6. Using lexical diversity measures to operationalize language dominance in bilinguals Jeanine Treffers-Daller and Tomasz Korybski; 7. Balance patterns in early bilingual acquisition: a longitudinal study of word comprehension and production Annick De Houwer and Marc H. Bornstein; 8. Amount of exposure as a proxy for dominance in bilingual language acquisition Sharon Unsworth; 9. The role of the childhood environment for language dominance: a study of adult simultaneous bilingual speakers of German and French Tanja Kupisch and Joost van de Weijer; 10. Assessing the relationship between input and strength of language development: a study on Italian-English bilingual children Francesca La Morgia; 11. Measuring language dominance in bilingual children: implications for cross-linguistic influence Elena Nicoladis; 12. Language dominance: the construct, its measurement and operationalization Jeanine Treffers-Daller; 13. Conclusion Jeanine Treffers-Daller.