2011 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Research on Language Development of a Simultaneous Bilingual Child
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21520421
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Linguistics
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| Research Institution | Kwansei Gakuin University |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2009 – 2011
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| Keywords | 言語学 / バイリンガリズム / 同時バイリンガル / 受容バイリンガル / 言語混合 / 言語習得/発達 |
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| Research Abstract |
This research study investigates some characteristics and functions of code-switching, produced by a receptive bilingual child whose productive abilities in the given two languages differ greatly. The investigation is conducted on three research questions :(1) what items are mos likely to be code-switched, (2) how grammatical code-switching is, and (3) whether code-switching has a function that enhances vocabulary expansion in the non-dominant language. The analysis of the available data reveals that (1) most of the switched items were non-conjugated morphemes, such as nouns. Due to the scarcity of the available data, however, a fruitful analysi of (2) and (3) is not ye possible and awaits the accumulation of sufficient data. This is an unavoidable problem in the study of receptive bilinguals, whose productive data are by definition scarce.
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Research Products
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[Remarks] YAMAMOTO Masayo, James Swan, Co-edited, Special issue on Bilingualism as a First Language in Japan, International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2012
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[Remarks] YAMAMOTO Masayo, James Swan, Co-authored, Editors' Introduction to This Special Issue, International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2012
