International Journal of Bilingualism articles from December 2009

International Journal of Bilingualism archives from December 2009

Language alternation and choice in a formal register: Spanish and English in bilingual Catholic services.
December 1, 2009... Abstract Language alternation tends to be proscribed in formal speech situations and registers; in bilingual communities, however, the use of two languages may be observed in formal speech events and registers. This article investigates the...

Delay, interference and bilingual development: the acquisition of verbal morphology in children learning Basque and Spanish.(Report)
December 1, 2009... Abstract In this article, I examine the acquisition of verbal agreement morphology in a cross-sectional study of 20 bilingual children and 19 monolingual children acquiring Basque and Spanish. The results indicate that some of the bilingual...

The language of anger in Chinese and English narratives.(Report)
December 1, 2009... Abstract This article analyses the language of anger used by the bilinguals in Hong Kong, and examines how the functions of L1 and L2 and users' language proficiency may affect emotional expression. Thirty-three university students in Hong...

Delayed acquisition of irregular inflectional morphology in Hebrew in early sequential bilingualism.(Report)
December 1, 2009... Abstract Acquisition of the irregular forms of inflectional morphology may be a challenge for bilingual students because of the possible effect of infrequent input. Focusing on irregular plural forms of languages such as Hebrew can contribute...