International Journal of Bilingualism articles from September 2006

International Journal of Bilingualism archives from September 2006

Gender assignment to nouns codeswitched into French: observations and explanations.
September 1, 2006... Abstract This article investigates the assignment of grammatical gender to foreign nouns codeswitched into French, where gender assignment is required. Contrary to other studies, this study is based on a questionnaire of 75 words filled by...

Imagined identities: preimmigrants' narratives on language and identity.
September 1, 2006... Abstract This article reports on a study which investigated the language- and identity-related, predeparture concerns and expectations of prospective immigrants. Narrative interviews were conducted with 15 Afrikaans-speaking South Africans...

The transition from nominal to pronominal person reference in the early language of a Mandarin-English bilingual child.
September 1, 2006... Abstract This paper is a first attempt in the literature to trace the developmental route from nominal to pronominal reference to person of a Mandarin-English bilingual first language acquirer 'J'. This progression is seen, longitudinally,...

Early understanding of two words for the same thing: a CDI study of lexical comprehension in infant bilinguals.(Communicative Development Inventory)
September 1, 2006... Abstract A basic question that arises with respect to early bilingual comprehension is whether, as in production, bilingual infants understand words from two languages that have the same meaning (translation equivalents). This study...

Codeswitching in Mirpuri speaking Pakistani heritage preschool children: bilingual language acquisition.
September 1, 2006... Abstract In an environment where bilingual adults codeswitch routinely, children are likely to show codeswitching in their own utterances from an early age. However, child language has rarely been studied from this viewpoint and...