International Journal of Bilingualism articles from June 2006

International Journal of Bilingualism archives from June 2006

Speech perception in adverse listening conditions in Arabic-Hebrew bilinguals.
June 1, 2006... Abstract Relatively little is known about the combined effects of adverse listening conditions on bilinguals' speech perception. This study examines the effect of (1) speech rate and (2) noise, separately and combined, on bilinguals'...

Do bilinguals have different concepts? The case of shape and material in Japanese L2 users of English.
June 1, 2006... Abstract An experiment investigated whether Japanese speakers' categorization of objects and substances by shape or material is influenced by acquiring English. Based on Imai and Gentner (1997), subjects were presented with an item such as...

Phrase-final intonation in narratives told by Turkish-German bilinguals.
June 1, 2006... Abstract In this study, I examine how three preadolescent, Turkish-German bilingual girls use intonational resources from both of their languages as one strategy for organizing monologic narratives. In so doing, I show that the bilingual...

The interactional and syntactic importance of prosody in Spanish-English bilingual discourse.
June 1, 2006... Abstract This paper highlights prosody as a fundamental feature of bilingual conversation. My data show that syntactic structure does not impose constraints on codeswitching, as one prevalent line of inquiry regarding codeswitching claims,...

Thresholds leading to shift: Spanish/English codeswitching and convergence in Georgia, U.S.A.
June 1, 2006... Abstract In the speech of members of a Georgia (U.S.A.) community of immigrants from Latin America, as their bilingual sentences of Spanish/English reach a certain threshold of English content, Spanish morphosyntactic patterns begin to...

["I dunno wha it is in Swedish": Interaction between bilingual students and their teachers in a monolingual classroom discourse]/'Ja vet int va de heter pa svenska': Interaktion mellan tvasprakiga elever och deras larare i en ensprakig klassrumsdiskurs.(Book review)
June 1, 2006... Anna Slotte-Luttge (2005) Abo, Finland: Abo Akademi University Press ISBN: 951-765-264-X. ISBN: 951-765-265-8 (digital). p.224 It is fair to say that ethnomethodological studies of bilingual interaction form an atomic, yet arguably...