Reconsidering Early Bilingualism

Table Of Contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• About the author
• About the book
• This eBook can be cited
• Acknowledgments
• Table of Contents
• Glossary of Terms and Abbreviations
• Terms and Abbreviations
• Grammatical Glossary Notation
• The Structure of this Book
• Abstract
• Chapter I: The Objectives and Hypotheses of the Present Book
• 1.1 Justification of Research and Methodology
• 1.2 Main Objective
• 1.3 Research Questions and Thesis Statements
• 1.3.1 Minority Language Impediment Etiology
• 1.3.2 Origins of Cross-Linguistic Influence
• 1.3.3 Operationalization of Language Dominance through Transfer Polarity
• 1.3.4 Accuracy of Parental Assessment of Language Dominance
• 1.3.5 Narrative Retelling Modelling Effect
• 1.3.6 Bilingual Deficit Etiology
• 1.4 Conclusion
• Chapter II: Bilingualism and Multilingualism
• 2.1 Two Languages versus Many
• 2.2 Definitions and Taxonomies of Bilingualism
• 2.3 History of Research into Multiple Language Modalities
• 2.4 The Impact of Multilingualism and Bilingualism
• 2.5 Conclusion
• Chapter III: Childhood Bilingualism in a Polish Context
• 3.1 Monolingual Language Acquisition in Polish Children
• 3.2 Bilingual Language Acquisition
• 3.3 Modelling Bilingualism
• 3.4 Typologies of Childhood Bilingualism
• 3.5 Conclusion
• Chapter IV: Cross-Linguistic Influence in Bilinguals
• 4.1 Language Dominance
• 4.2 Approaches to Language Transfer
• 4.3 Research into Constraints on Language Transfer
• 4.3.1 The Role of the Syntax-Pragmatics Interface
• 4.3.2 The Effect of Informativeness on Argument Structure
• 4.3.3 The Efficacy of Informativeness as a Predictor of Argument Structure
• 4.3.4 The Role of the Syntax-Semantics Interface
• 4.3.5 The Role of Input
• 4.4 Code-Mixing and Code-Switching
• 4.4.1 Mixing vs. Switching
• 4.4.2 Frameworks
• 4.5 Conclusion
• Chapter V: Approaches to the Study of Bilingual Child Narratives
• 5.1 On the Emergence of Narratives
• 5.1.1 Every Human is a Tale-Teller, and Every Human is a Listener
• 5.1.2 Why study Narratives?
• 5.2 Approaches to Narrative Analysis
• 5.2.1 The Narrative as a Grammar
• 5.2.2 The Narrative as a Causal Network
• 5.2.3 The Narrative as Form-Function Mapping
• 5.2.4 Narratives, Intentionality, and Theory of Mind
• 5.3 Methods of Narrative Analysis: a Review of the Field
• 5.3.1 Elicitation Materials
• 5.3.2 Bilingual Data Collection
• 5.3.3 Macrostructure and Microstructure
• 5.3.4 Marcostructure Analysis
• 5.3.5 Microstructure Analysis Methods
• 5.4 Conclusion
• Chapter VI: Theoretical Assumptions
• 6.1 Current and Past Theories of Grammatical Modelling
• 6.2 Why it is Necessary to Formalize Language when Modelling it through Corpora
• 6.2.1 Formal Quantification
• 6.2.2 Typological Neutrality
• 6.3 Issues in Error Analysis
• 6.3.1 Error
• 6.3.2 Alternate Error Taxonomies
• 6.3.3 Why the Previous Taxonomies were Found Wanting
• 6.4 Towards a Form-Meaning-based Error Taxonomy
• 6.4.1 Present Definitions
• 6.4.2 Present Error Taxonomy Proper
• 6.4.3 Argument Structure Error
• 6.4.4 Argument Restriction
• 6.4.5 Word-Order
• 6.4.6 Word-Level Inflection
• 6.4.7 Derivation
• 6.4.8 Non-Local Morphology
• 6.4.9 Pragmatic Error (abandoned category)
• 6.4.10 CLI Taxonomy Proper
• 6.5 Conclusion
• Chapter VII: Corpus Structure and Mark-Up
• 7.1 Data Sources and Experiment Set-Up
• 7.1.1 Participants
• 7.1.2 Data Accumulation Procedure (MAIN test)3
• 7.1.3 Data Processing
• 7.2 Corpus Structure and Mark-Up Design
• 7.2.1 Ensuring Representativeness
• 7.2.2 Mark-Up
• 7.2.3 Mark-Up Scheme
• 7.2.4 SCAMP File Structure
• 7.3 Procedure
• 7.3.1 Lexical Measures
• 7.3.2 Syntactic Measures
• 7.3.3 Errors and Instances of Cross-Linguistic Influence
• 7.3.4 Analyses Performed
• Chapter VIII: Results
• 8.1 Measures of Accuracy
• 8.2 Lexicon
• 8.3 Syntax
• 8.4 Cross-Linguistic Influences
• 8.5 Summary of Research Findings
• Chapter IX: Discussion and Implications
• 9.1 Verified Hypotheses
• 9.1.1 Minority Language Impediment Etiology
• 9.1.2 Origins of Cross-Linguistic Influence
• 9.1.3 Operationalization of Language Dominance through Transfer Polarity
• 9.1.4 Accuracy of Parental Assessment of Language Dominance
• 9.1.5 Bilingual Deficit Etiology
• 9.2 Unverified Hypothesis
• 9.3 Methodological Implications
• 9.4 Theoretical Implications
• 9.4.1 The Demonstrative-as-Determiner Transfer Rule and the Universal Overt Subject Rule
• 9.4.2 Major to Minor Transfer Polarity
• 9.4.3 Parental Role
• 9.4.4 Narrative Modelling Effect
• 9.4.5 The Case for “Benign Transfer”
• 9.5 Pedagogical Implications
• 9.5.1 Parental Involvement and Home Environment Remedial Strategies
• 9.5.2 Formal Education and Replicating the Benefits of Primary Bilingualism in Secondary Bilingualism
• 9.6 Further Research
• References
• Index Lists