Measuring language dominance in bilinguals with two sign languages

Q2 Arts and Humanities

LIA Language, Interaction and Acquisition Pub Date : 2022-12-31 DOI:10.1075/lia.22004.lin

Dag Johan Lindeberg

引用次数: 1

Abstract

This study examines whether a multi-faceted construct of language dominance developed for spoken languages applies to signed language bilinguals. Sign languages have been described as highly iconic and relatively similar to each other compared to spoken languages. Attaining fluency in the signed modality might well require considerably less effort, and balanced bilingualism may be more prevalent in the signed modality. Language dominance constructs, as currently understood, might differ in the spoken and signed modality. Forty bilinguals with two sign languages responded to a language dominance questionnaire developed for spoken languages and performed a phonological fluency (sign generation) task. Language dominance levels were found to vary in the signed modality. The correlation between reported dominance levels and the number of signs generated in each sign language was significant, suggesting that the construct of language dominance tested is robust and independent of modality.

查看原文本刊更多论文

用两种手语测量双语者的语言优势

这项研究考察了为口语发展的语言优势的多方面结构是否适用于手语双语者。手语被描述为具有高度的标志性，并且与口语相比彼此相对相似。在手语中达到流利可能需要相当少的努力，平衡的双语可能在手语中更普遍。正如目前所理解的，语言优势结构可能在口语和手语中有所不同。40名拥有两种手语的双语者对为口语开发的语言优势问卷进行了回答，并进行了语音流利性（手语生成）任务。研究发现，手语的语言优势水平各不相同。所报告的优势水平与每种手语中产生的符号数量之间的相关性是显著的，这表明所测试的语言优势结构是稳健的，与情态无关。

本文章由计算机程序翻译，如有差异，请以英文原文为准。

求助全文

约1分钟内获得全文求助全文

来源期刊

LIA Language, Interaction and Acquisition Arts and Humanities-Language and Linguistics

CiteScore

0.80

自引率

0.00%

发文量

期刊介绍： LIA is a bilingual English-French journal that publishes original theoretical and empirical research of high scientific quality at the forefront of current debates concerning language acquisition. It covers all facets of language acquisition among different types of learners and in diverse learning situations, with particular attention to oral speech and/or to signed languages. Topics include the acquisition of one or more foreign languages, of one or more first languages, and of sign languages, as well as learners’ use of gestures during speech; the relationship between language and cognition during acquisition; bilingualism and situations of linguistic contact – for example pidginisation and creolisation. The bilingual nature of LIA aims at reaching readership in a wide international community, while simultaneously continuing to attract intellectual and linguistic resources stemming from multiple scientific traditions in Europe, thereby remaining faithful to its original French anchoring. LIA is the direct descendant of the French-speaking journal AILE.