Lexical measures as a proxy for bilingual language dominance?-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Lexical measures as a proxy for bilingual language dominance?

Published:2021-05-21 Issue:0 Volume:0 Page:
ISSN:1613-4141
Container-title:International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching
language:en
Short-container-title:

Author:

Bonvin Audrey¹^ORCID,Brugger Ladina²^ORCID,Berthele Raphael³^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Multilingualism and Foreign Language Education, Faculty of Arts and Humanities , University of Fribourg , Fribourg , Switzerland

2. Bern University of Teacher Education , Bern , Switzerland

3. Institute of Multilingualism , University of Fribourg and University of Teacher Education of Fribourg , Fribourg , Switzerland

Abstract

Abstract In bilingualism research, language dominance has been conceptualized and operationalized in different ways. In this paper, we discuss this notion and investigate to what extent language dominance is congruent with vocabulary knowledge in each language. First, we summarize definitions and operationalizations of language dominance. We show that comparison of proficiency related measures is a common operationalization of language dominance. Yet, the importance of attitudinal, biographical, or use-related components is often stressed. Such components are included in survey instruments like the Bilingual Language Profile (BLP). Second, we analyze data on language profiles of 225 French/German and 70 Italian/German adult bilinguals. Correlation and regression models are fitted to investigate the relation between the multi-dimensional dominance metric (BLP) results and results based on lexical tests (LexTALE for German and French, the VSPT from Dialang for Italian). The results reveal a strong linear association between BLP and LexTale.

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Subject

Linguistics and Language,Language and Linguistics

Link

https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/iral-2020-0093/pdf

Reference45 articles.

1. Amengual, Mark. 2018. Asymmetrical interlingual influence in the production of Spanish and English laterals as a result of competing activation in bilingual language processing. Journal of Phonetics 69. 12–28. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wocn.2018.04.002.

2. Amenta, Simona, Linda Badan & Marc Brysbaert. 2020. LexITA: A quick and reliable assessment tool for Italian L2 receptive vocabulary size. Applied Linguistics. 1–24. https://doi.org/10.1093/applin/amaa020.

3. Bahrick, Harry P., Lynda K. Hall, Judith P. Goggin, Lorraine E. Bahrick & Stephanie A. Berger. 1994. Fifty years of language maintenance and language dominance in bilingual Hispanic immigrants. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 123(3). 264–283. https://doi.org/10.1037/0096-3445.123.3.264.

4. Bates, Douglas, Martin Maechler, Ben Bolker & Steve Walker. 2015. Fitting Linear Mixed-Effects Models Using lme4. Journal of Statistical Software 67(1). 1–48. https://doi.org/10.18637/jss.v067.i01.

5. Bedore, Lisa M., Elisabeth D. Pena, Connie L. Summers, Karin M. Boerger, Maria D. Resendiz, Kai Greene, Thomas M. Bohman & Ronald B. Gillam. 2012. The measure matters: Language dominance profiles across measures in Spanish-English bilingual children. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition 15(3). 616–629. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1366728912000090.

Cited by 6 articles. 订阅此论文施引文献订阅此论文施引文献，注册后可以免费订阅5篇论文的施引文献，订阅后可以查看论文全部施引文献

1. The effect of an intervention focused on academic language on CAF measures in the multilingual writing of secondary students;International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching;2024-05-31

2. Spanish–English bilingual heritage speakers processing of inanimate sentences;Frontiers in Language Sciences;2024-03-27

3. Processing polarity sensitivity in L2 Spanish;Second Language Research;2023-06-27

4. Language balance rather than age of acquisition: A study on the cross-linguistic gender congruency effect in Portuguese–German bilinguals;Bilingualism: Language and Cognition;2023-05-26

5. “I no longer count in German.” On dominance shift in returnee heritage speakers;Applied Psycholinguistics;2022-09