Assessing Language Dominance in Bilingual Acquisition: A Case for Mean Length Utterance Differentials
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Assessing Language Dominance in Bilingual Acquisition: A Case for Mean Length Utterance Differentials
The notion of language dominance is often defined in terms of proficiency. We distinguish dominance, as a property of the bilingual mind and a concept of language knowledge, from proficiency, as a concept of language use. We discuss ways in which language dominance may be assessed, with a focus on measures of mean length of utterance (MLU). Comparison of MLU in the child’s 2 languages is subjec...
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عنوان ژورنال: Language Assessment Quarterly
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1543-4303,1543-4311
DOI: 10.1207/s15434311laq0302_2