International Journal of Bilingualism articles from June 2005

International Journal of Bilingualism archives from June 2005

Special issue on emergent grammars in bilingual children.(Introduction)
June 1, 2005... Recently the debate about the analysis of mixed utterances in bilingual child language has been revived. Whereas the early publications in this field assumed that there was an initial stage with a mixed language system in which elements of both...

A radical approach to early mixed utterances.
June 1, 2005... Abstract We take a radical approach to the organizing principles of emergent grammars in bilingual children: (1) We adopt the framework of Radical Construction Grammar (Croft, 2001) and (2) we undertake an extensive analysis of a wide...

Language mixing and learning strategy.
June 1, 2005... Abstract This paper investigates the relationship between language mixing and learning strategy in one English-Italian bilingual child between 1;10 and 2;2. (Mean Length of Utterance in words 1.1-2.0). The first 200 multiword combinations...

The role of illocutionary operators in the emerging grammars of bilingual children.
June 1, 2005... Abstract In this paper, we bring together recent discussions about the role of function words in emerging monolingual grammars with the discussion about role of these words in mixed utterances in emerging bilingual grammars. Recently...

Codeswitching at the interface of language-specific lexicons and the computational system.
June 1, 2005... Abstract It has been noted by many researchers that young bilingual children pass through a stage of early mixing which extends approximately until the age of 2;6 and ends abruptly. Research on bilingual first language acquisition has...

Bilingual early functional-lexical mixing and the activation of formal features.
June 1, 2005... Abstract We have argued that the grammatical features spell-out hypothesis (GFSH) (Liceras, Spradlin, Perales, Fernandez, & Alvarez, 2003; Spradlin, Liceras & Fernandez, 2003a) accounts for the functional-lexical mixing patterns that...

Language specific bootstraps for UG categories.
June 1, 2005... Abstract This paper argues that the universal categories N/V are not applied to content words before the grammatical markings for reference D(eterminers) and predication I(nflection) have been acquired (van Kampen, 1997, contra Pinker,...

The multilingual potential in emerging grammars.
June 1, 2005... Abstract Our contribution deals with the nature of children's earliest word combinations. Based on data from monolingual (German) and bilingual (German/English) children we argue that there is no pregrammatical stage once children move...