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Sheng, Li; Lu, Ying; Kan, Pui Fong – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2011
Two groups of Mandarin-English bilingual children (3-5-year-olds, 6-8-year-olds) participated in a picture identification task and a picture naming task in both languages. Results revealed age-related growth in English, but not Mandarin vocabulary. Composite vocabulary was larger than either single-language vocabulary in the younger children but…
Descriptors: Vocabulary, Mandarin Chinese, English, Language Dominance
Zyzik, Eve; Gass, Susan – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2008
The five papers in this issue cover a range of perspectives on the acquisition and use of the Spanish copulas "ser" and "estar" in a variety of contexts, including language contact, bilingual language acquisition, and classroom second language learning. The fact that these papers cite work in this area as far back as the early part of the 20th…
Descriptors: Linguistic Borrowing, Second Language Learning, Prior Learning, Language Acquisition
Bernardini, Petra; Schlyter, Suzanne – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2004
We present a hypothesis for a specific kind of code-mixing in young bilingual children, during the development of their two first languages, one of which is considerably weaker than the other. Our hypothesis, which we label the Ivy Hypothesis, is that, in the interaction meant to be in the weaker language, the child uses portions of higher…
Descriptors: Syntax, Monolingualism, Bilingualism, Linguistic Theory