Growing syntactic structure and code-mixing in the weaker language: The Ivy Hypothesis

By P. Bernardini, Suzanne Schlyter. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2004

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Language and Linguistics

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The weaker language in early child bilingualism: Acquiring a first language as a second language? (2007, background): “This is, in fact, what Gawlitzek-Maiwald and Tracy (1996) and Bernardini and Schlyter (2004) have suggested.”
The Influence of Dominance and Sociolinguistic Context on Bilingual Preschoolers' Language Choice (2007, background): “Researchers have shown that dominance in young bilingual children plays a role in constraining language choice and determining codemixing patterns (Bernardini & Schlyter, 2004; Deuchar & Quay, 2000; Gawlitzek-Maiwald & Tracy, 1996; Genesee et al ., 1995a, 1995b; Lanza, 1997; Nicoladis, 1998;…”
Exposure and input in bilingual development (2017, background): “…speech production, and preferred directionality of code switches (from the strong language to the weak one) in bilingual spontaneous conversation (Bernardini & Schlyter, 2004; ∗ I would like to thank the editors, Harald Clahsen and Jubin Abutalebi, for the opportunity to discuss input and…”
Gender and gender agreement in bilingual native and non-native grammars: A view from child and adult functional–lexical mixings (2008, background): “18 Bernardini and Schlyter (2004) propose that their ‘Ivy Hypothesis’ accounts for sentence-internal code-mixing in the case of some young bilingual children with uneven development.”
Determiners in bilingual German–Italian children: What they tell us about the relation between language influence and language dominance (2007, background): “Bernardini and Schlyter (2004) proposed the IVY-HYPOTHESIS, according to which, during interaction in the weaker language, bilingual children use syntactic structures of the stronger language.”
Bilingual language acquisition and theories of diachronic change: Bilingualism as cause and effect of grammatical change* (2010, background): “Bernardini and Schlyter (2004) or Schlyter and Håkansson (1994), she presented some of the most detailed and interesting analyses of the WL. In her seminal paper, Schlyter (1993, p. 305) states that “the stronger language exhibits all the characteristics of normal L1 development, as regards the cent”
What Defines Language Dominance in Bilinguals? (2019, background): “In a study of three children who were growing up in Sweden with Italian, French, or Swedish as the weaker language, Bernardini & Schlyter (2004) provided some evidence for the existence of asymmetrical developments in bilingual children’s grammars in the stronger and weaker languages.”
Dominant-language replacement: The case of international adoptees* (2009, background): “…acquisition, where one language is added later, but also in situations where both languages are acquired simultaneously from the start, as two L1s (Bernardini and Schlyter, 2004), even though simultaneous bilinguals in many ways resemble monolingual L1 acquirers (for an overview, see Genesee and…”
The Language and Literacy Development of Young Dual Language Learners: A Critical Review (2014, background): “Bernardini and Schlyter (2004) found that in nearly all mixed utterances produced by three young Swedish-Italian and Swedish-French DLL infants/ toddlers, the stronger language filled in the gaps of the weaker language.”
Effects of input on the early grammatical development of bilingual children (2010, background): “Children may expand their morphosyntactic abilities in the weaker language by code-mixing from the dominant language (Bernardini & Schlyter 2004).”