Assessing Language Dominance in Bilingual Acquisition: A Case for Mean Length Utterance Differentials
By Virginia Yip, S. Matthews. 2006
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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Language and Linguistics
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Citations in the corpus
- RELATIVE CLAUSES IN CANTONESE-ENGLISH BILINGUAL CHILDREN: Typological Challenges and Processing Motivations (2007, background): “…of dominance of Cantonese, as measured by mean length of utterance ~MLU! in the two languages, language preference, and other indicators ~see Yip & Matthews, 2000, 2006, 2007!+ This pattern, in turn, is attributed to an imbalance of input: In the extended family environment, many relatives…”
- Exposure and input in bilingual development (2017, background): “Address for correspondence: Susanne E. Carroll, Dept. of Linguistics, Languages & Cultures, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive N.W., Calgary, AB, T2N 1N4, Canada susanne.carroll@ucalgary.ca La Morgia, 2001; Lanza, 1992, 1997; Schlyter, 1993; Yip & Matthews, 2006).”
- What Defines Language Dominance in Bilinguals? (2019, background): “It is therefore not surprising that MLU is also frequently employed to operationalize dominance, despite the difficulties involved in comparing it across languages (Deuchar & Muntz 2003, Kupisch 2008, Schmeißer et al. 2016, Yip & Matthews 2006).”