Beyond accuracy: Fluency and complexity in the spoken output of bilingual and monolingual preadolescents.
The language of Heritage Speakers (HS), or of early bilinguals of a minority language, is often seen as incomplete or less developed than that of Monolingual Speakers (MS). This study investigates whether 7- to 9-year-old English/Polish HS can be distinguished from MS in terms of linguistic skills w...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Monolingual & Bilingual Speech (JMBS) Vol. 5; no. 3; pp. 328 - 357 |
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University of Toronto Press
2023
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=175266981&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 175266981 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 26318407 MK4O jtl: Journal of Monolingual & Bilingual Speech (JMBS) issn: 26318407 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: 2023 vid: 5 iid: 3 pid: 678 pub: University of Toronto Press artinfo: ui: 175266981 10.1558/jmbs.23513 ppf: 328 ppct: 29 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P size: 751KB tig: atl: Beyond accuracy: Fluency and complexity in the spoken output of bilingual and monolingual preadolescents. aug: au: Grose-Hodge, Magdalena Dabrowska, Ewa Divjak, Dagmar affil: University of Birmingham, United Kingdom Friedrich Alexander Universitat, Germany; University of Birmingham, United Kingdom su: Preteens Heritage language speakers Linguistic minorities English language sug: subj: Preteens Heritage language speakers Linguistic minorities English language keyword: BILINGUALISM DEFICIT APPROACH FLUENCY HERITAGE LANGUAGE ACQUISITION (HLA) INCOMPLETE ACQUISITION SYNTACTIC COMPLEXITY ab: The language of Heritage Speakers (HS), or of early bilinguals of a minority language, is often seen as incomplete or less developed than that of Monolingual Speakers (MS). This study investigates whether 7- to 9-year-old English/Polish HS can be distinguished from MS in terms of linguistic skills when complexity and fluency are focal rather than accuracy. Data from 78 participants shows no significant differences between HS and MS in fluency on an overall measure in either of the languages, although HS produce more fillers and repetitions. On complexity measures, the results for English were similar across groups for Mean Length of T-Unit, but there was a statistically significant difference in Polish, with HS achieving higher values. On a more specific measure of syntactic complexity (Subordination Index), HS achieved higher scores in both languages. There were no significant differences for Lexical Diversity. Corresponding measures were positively correlated across languages, suggesting that the L1 does not impede L2 achievement. Overall, we observed substantial overlap between the groups, with the vast majority of HS falling within the MS norms and the MS falling within the HS norms. This emphasises the need to move away from the deficit approach towards HS. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of Journal of Monolingual & Bilingual Speech (JMBS) is the property of University of Toronto Press and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: Journal of Monolingual & Bilingual Speech (JMBS) holder: University of Toronto Press dt: @attributes: year: 2023 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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