Study of an older child's first language learned as the minority language in a bilingual setting

"The literature on bilingualism and language change shows considerable evidence that simplification, reduction, restructuring and loss of linguistic systems in the first language (mother tongue) do occur on a large scale under certain conditions. The research reported here is the case study of a ten year old French/English bilingual child who, though exposed from birth to French through his mother and later (3:6) through his father, has developed a language that is not ""native"". The research consisted of two parts: an analysis of a spontaneous speech sample (8.25 hours of recordings taken over a five month period) and a ""judgment of grammaticality"" test to assess receptive knowledge."

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Education

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2011

Author dc:creator

• Pestkowski, Dominique Anne-Marie

Contributors dc:contributor

• Maclay, Howard S.

• Education, Language and Literature
• Education, Educational Psychology
• Psychology, Developmental

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 1989 Pestkowski, Dominique Anne-Marie

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

AAI8916297
(UMI)AAI8916297

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/20021