Language dominance prediction in Spanish-English bilingual children using syntactic information: a first approximation
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This paper presents results on a preliminary study using syntactic information to predict language dominance in Spanish-English bilingual children. Our approach uses a bag of syntactic grammar rules taken from narratives in English and Spanish. We then measure prediction accuracy of categorizing children into Spanish-dominant, English-dominant, and Balanced Bilingual. The results are competitive to previous work using a much larger and diverse set of features with shallow syntactic analysis. This paper shows the potential benefit of adding a deeper syntactic analysis for modeling language in young children, even in the case of having mixed language samples.
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