International Journal of Bilingualism articles

Recent articles from International Journal of Bilingualism

Creole/Spanish contact and the acquisition of clitics on the Dominican-Haitian border.
December 1, 2008... Abstract In this paper we investigate language contact between Haitian Creole and Dominican Spanish. We focus particularly on the acquisition of clitic pronouns (dative and accusative) in relation to their morpho-syntactic properties in the interlanguage of L2 Spanish speakers (Haitians...

A comparative study of bilingual discourse markers in Chicago Mexican, Puerto Rican, and MexiRican Spanish.
December 1, 2008... Abstract This study examines the use of Spanish and English discourse markers among first, second, and third generation Spanish-speakers in Chicago, Illinois, comparing Mexican, Puerto Rican, and MexiRican speakers. We find that so is a core borrowing for all groups, although there were...

Selective attrition in Russian-English bilingual children: preservation of grammatical aspect.
December 1, 2008... Abstract Loss of language-specific morphosyntactic structures, as well as the lexicon, is a hallmark of a 'heritage language.' Specific to Russian, previous research suggested the lexicalization of grammatical aspect. This study investigated early stages of attrition in bilingual...

The role of emotions in L1 attrition: the case of Korean-English late bilinguals in New Zealand.
December 1, 2008... Abstract This article explores the role of emotions in LI attrition and L2 acquisition in a group of 30 Korean-English L1-dominant late bilinguals in New Zealand. The relationship between LI/L2 proficiency measures and emotion-related language choice (ERLC) is investigated using three...

Ng Bee Chin and Gillian Wigglesworth, Bilingualism: An Advanced Resource Book.
December 1, 2008... NG BEE CHIN AND GILLIAN WIGGLESWORTH, BILINGUALISM: AN ADVANCED RESOURCE BOOK (Routledge, Taylor & Francis, 2007) Research Centre for Languages and Cultures, University of South Australia This book presents a lucid and analytical account of the bi-/multilingual phenomenon from both a...