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Family constellation and language experience as influences on bilingual first language acquisition
Title
Family constellation and language experience as influences on bilingual first language acquisition.
Creator
Place, Silvia., Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Department of Psychology
Abstract/Description
This study investigated the effects of family composition and properties of children's dual language exposure on bilingual first language acquisition. Mothers of 29 toddlers (13 boys and 16 girls, M age = 25.66 months, SD = .44) kept a language diary, providing measures of the amount, the contexts, and the persons with whom the children experienced English and Spanish. Measures of the children's vocabulary balance were obtained from English and Spanish language inventories. Results showed...
Show moreThis study investigated the effects of family composition and properties of children's dual language exposure on bilingual first language acquisition. Mothers of 29 toddlers (13 boys and 16 girls, M age = 25.66 months, SD = .44) kept a language diary, providing measures of the amount, the contexts, and the persons with whom the children experienced English and Spanish. Measures of the children's vocabulary balance were obtained from English and Spanish language inventories. Results showed that only children with two native Spanish-speaking parents had larger Spanish than English vocabularies and experienced more hours of Spanish-only exposure and Spanish-only conversational contexts. Analysis of covariance demonstrated that the effect of family composition on vocabulary balance was completely mediated by the balance of English and Spanish in the children's language exposure. There was no evidence of a unique effect of experiencing Spanish-only conversational contexts or partners on children's acquisition of Spanish.
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Date Issued
2009
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/246048
Subject Headings
Language acquisition, Parent participation, Language arts (Early childhood), Hispanic American families, Language, Bilingualism in children
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Document (PDF)
Language separation and intermingling in young children's bilingual environments and their effects on children's dual language development and use
Title
Language separation and intermingling in young children's bilingual environments and their effects on children's dual language development and use.
Creator
Place, Silvia., Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, Department of Psychology
Abstract/Description
The current study addressed several questions about the use of language intermingling in child-directed speech and its influence on children's English and Spanish language acquisition on children's language code-switching, Participants were 65 children (Mean age=30.93 months, SD=0.44, 28 boys and 37 girls) who had been exposed to English and Spanish from birth and for whom at least one parent was a native Spanish speaker.... Measures of the children's lexical, grammatical, receptive, and...
Show moreThe current study addressed several questions about the use of language intermingling in child-directed speech and its influence on children's English and Spanish language acquisition on children's language code-switching, Participants were 65 children (Mean age=30.93 months, SD=0.44, 28 boys and 37 girls) who had been exposed to English and Spanish from birth and for whom at least one parent was a native Spanish speaker.... Measures of the children's lexical, grammatical, receptive, and productive language development in English and in Spanish were collected concurrently.... Consistent with sociolinguistic theories that propose that language separation is necessary for heritage language maintenance, children who were exposed to more language intermingling were more English-dominant. Both sensitivity to the language context and children's language dominance were related to children's production of mixed utterances. Children code-switched more when speaking in their less proficient language and when in the context of minority language use.
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Date Issued
2012
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3355870
Subject Headings
Language arts (Early childhood), Language acquisition, Parent participation, Hispanic American families, Language, Bilingualism in children, Code switching (Linguistics), Sociolinguistics
Format
Document (PDF)