International Journal of Bilingualism articles from March 2007

International Journal of Bilingualism archives from March 2007

IJB ten years on.(International Journal of Bilingualism)(Editorial)
March 1, 2007... This year marks the 10th anniversary of the International Journal of Bilingualism. One of the key reasons for Nick Miller and I to decide to launch the journal, and to organize the first International Symposium on Bilingualism, was that we...

(In)vulnerable agreement in incomplete bilingual L1 learners.(Report)
March 1, 2007... Abstract This study investigates morphological vulnerability in incomplete bilingual L1 acquisition. It examines the production of L1 inflections by L2-dominant bilingual children, with the aim of exploring causes of difficulty in...

Language contact between Spanish and Moseten: a study of grammatical integration.(Report)
March 1, 2007... Abstract: Moseten (Mosetenan) is spoken by approximately 800 people in the foothills of the Bolivian Andes. All of the speakers are bilingual in Spanish and Moseten. Spanish is highly dominant and as expected, Moseten has borrowed many...

The evolution of trilingual codeswitching from infancy to school age: the shaping of trilingual competence through dynamic language dominance.(Report)
March 1, 2007... Abstract This article reports on a study of the codeswitches produced by two children who acquired their three languages in early childhood. We compared formal and functional aspects of their switches recorded at two different stages of...

Compound verbs in codeswitching: bilinguals making do?(Report)
March 1, 2007... Abstract This paper builds on an earlier one (Gardner-Chloros & Edwards, 2004), where we pointed to various problems underlying the search for grammatical constraints on codeswitching (CS), these problems being largely derived from the...