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Languages, Volume 9, Issue 7

July 2024 - 31 articles

Cover Story: The quantity of language input is a relevant predictor of children’s language development and is often measured via various methods. This study compared the methods that are most commonly used to measure bilingual language environments. Bilingual language input estimates of 31 Turkish–Dutch and 21 Polish–Dutch 3-to-5-year-old bilingual children were measured via a questionnaire for quantifying bilingual experience (Q-BEx), day-long audio recordings (LENAs), and a combined method. Each method correlated significantly with vocabulary scores, regardless of modality or language. The three methods did not significantly differ from each other in their correlational strength with vocabulary. These findings show that both Q-BEx, LENAs, and the combined method can be deemed reliable instruments to measure bilingual language input quantity. View this paper
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Articles (31)

  • Article
  • Open Access
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32 Pages

Recent work found a correspondence between consonant clustering probability in monosyllabic lexemes and the three vowel types, short and long monophthong and diphthong, in German dialects. Furthermore, that correspondence was found to be bound to a N...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,961 Views
30 Pages

This study explores dual language acquisition according to three interrelated factors which have been found to account for individual differences in bilingual development. These are child-internal, proximal and distal factors. This five-year longitud...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
6,255 Views
15 Pages

The communicative approach to language learning, a teaching method commonly used in second language (L2) classrooms, places little to no emphasis on pronunciation training. As a result, mobile-assisted pronunciation training (MAPT) platforms provide...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,829 Views
18 Pages

Multilingualism has become the norm in families all over the world. These families need to juggle their children’s linguistic identity and integration in their contexts. They may also need professional advice about which language(s) they should...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,723 Views
13 Pages

Although Italo-Greek is characterized by a general retreat of infinitival complementation, it partly preserves the infinitive in restructuring contexts: a handful of functional auxiliaries—in an overt or covert form—allow for infinitival...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,678 Views
27 Pages

Causal relations allow a very detailed insight into the narrative skills of children from various backgrounds; however, their contribution has not been sufficiently studied in bilingual populations. The present study examines the expression of causal...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,896 Views
26 Pages

This study examines attitudes and ideologies associated with the Finnish language and identity among successive generations of Finnish Americans in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and Northern Minnesota, where Finnish is a postvernacular heritage lan...

  • Article
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4,679 Views
34 Pages

Intonational plateaus exist in Chilean Spanish in contexts in which they do not exist in any other variety of Spanish. Mapudungun, which has been in contact with Chilean Spanish for centuries, also has plateaus in similar contexts, although for years...

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