International Journal of Bilingualism articles from March 2006

International Journal of Bilingualism archives from March 2006

Talking about silence: gender and the construction of multilingual identities.
March 1, 2006... Abstract This paper concerns identity, multilingualism, gender and silence. It draws upon poststructuralist discussions on the role of language in the construction of identity, particularly in relation to gender and bilingualism. As...

Structural characteristics of proper nouns in Korean-Swedish discourse.
March 1, 2006... Abstract This article examines the structural characteristics of proper nouns from other languages, which have been considered to be the most typical borrowings to such an extent that most codeswitching researchers have not made it a...

On the bilingual competence of Spanish heritage speakers: Syntax, lexical-semantics and processing.
March 1, 2006... Abstract This study investigates the bilingual competence of adult simultaneous Spanish-English bilinguals living in the U.S. whose perceived weaker language is Spanish, and who are typically considered cases of language loss or...

The relationship between the phonological complexity of a bilingual child's words and those of the target languages.
March 1, 2006... Abstract The study of an English-Hungarian two-year-old child was conducted to explore two research issues: (1) the relationship between the complexity of the child's productions and their respective target words in each language, and...

Language learners' use of discourse markers as evidence for a mixed code.
March 1, 2006... Abstract Against the backdrop of the language classroom as a bilingual community of practice, this paper focuses on learners' use of discourse markers in one advanced German language classroom. As in other bilingual communities, the...