Conversational codeswitching among Korean-English bilingual children

English and Korean stop productions of monolingual versus bilingual children

A long-standing issue in the theory and description of bilingualism is whether bilingual children develop one or two linguistic systems in the learning of their two languages. The one-system hypothesis (Swain, 1972; Volterra & Taeschner, 1978) suggests that children initially posit linguistic rules common to both languages; then they differentiate the two as they master higher linguistic knowle...

Vowel category formation in Korean-English bilingual children.

PURPOSE A previous investigation (Lee & Iverson, 2012) found that English and Korean stop categories were fully distinguished by Korean-English bilingual children at 10 years of age but not at 5 years of age. The present study examined vowels produced by Korean-English bilingual children of these same ages to determine whether and when bilinguals establish distinct vowel categories across their...

Codeswitching in Bilingual Children with Specific Language Impairment.

Children with specific language impairment (SLI) exhibit limited grammatical skills compared to their peers with typical language. These difficulties may be revealed when alternating their two languages (i.e., codeswitching) within sentences. Fifty-eight Spanish-English speaking children with and without SLI produced narratives using wordless picture books and conversational samples. The result...

Phonological patterns in Mandarin-English bilingual children.

Adele Miccio recognized the paucity of information on the phonological development of children from diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds, and emphasized the need to apply advances in bilingual phonological research toward an appropriate phonological measure for bilingual children. In the spirit of her pioneering work, the present study investigated both Mandarin and English phonological ...

Syntactic Interference in Chinese-English Bilingual Children