Bilingual language acquisition in a minority context: using the Irish–English Communicative Development Inventory to track acquisition of an endangered language
| Autor: | Ciara O'Toole, Tina Hickey |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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060201 languages & linguistics
Linguistics and Language Vocabulary media_common.quotation_subject BATES Context (language use) 06 humanities and the arts Language acquisition Language and Linguistics language.human_language Linguistics Education Irish Endangered language 0602 languages and literature language Psychology Minority language Neuroscience of multilingualism media_common |
| Zdroj: | International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism. 20:146-162 |
| ISSN: | 1747-7522 1367-0050 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/13670050.2016.1179256 |
| Popis: | This study investigated the role of language exposure in vocabulary acquisition in Irish, a threatened minority language in Ireland which is usually acquired with English in a bilingual context. Using a bilingual Irish–English adaptation of the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories) [Fenson, L., V. A. Marchman, D. J. Thal, P. S. Dale, J. S. Reznick, and E. Bates. 2007. The MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories. 2nd ed. Baltimore: Brookes], longitudinal parent report data were collected from 34 children (19 girls and 15 boys) at 4-monthly intervals, resulting in 61 data points between the ages of 17–36 months. Language exposure estimates indicated that while the caregivers ‘always’ spoke Irish to the children, both languages were used in most households, with/among siblings and extended family. The children’s vocabulary indicated that they were Irish-dominant in this age range, with more Irish words than English for all vocabulary categories. The analysis also showed... |
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