Talking with strangers: A study of bilingual children's communicative competence
Talking with strangers: A study of bilingual children's communicative competence
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DOI：
10.1017/s0142716400008183
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发表时间：
1996-12-01
影响因子：
2.1
通讯作者：
Nicoladis, E
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作者：
Genesee, F;Boivin, I;Nicoladis, E
熟练的双语者的交际能力的一个重要组成部分是能够根据对话者的相关特征和交际情景，有区别地适当地使用他们的每种语言。这里报告的研究检查了四个幼儿（平均年龄2;2，平均MLU为1.56）谁是收购英语和法语同时在家里的交际能力。我们观察了这些孩子与单语陌生人以及与双语父母使用语言的方式。具体而言，儿童使用的英语，法语，混合（英语和法语）的话语与陌生人在自然的游戏情况进行了比较，使用模式与他们的父母，也在游戏过程中。我们发现，所有的孩子都做出了一些适应，这可能与陌生人的单语性有关;有些孩子比其他孩子更随和。结果进行了讨论，在年轻的双语儿童的能力，以修改他们的语言在线响应特定的语言特点，他们的对话者。
An important component of the communicative competence of proficient bilinguals is the ability to use each of their languages differentially and appropriately according to relevant characteristics of the interlocutors and communicative situations. The research reported here examined the communicative competence of four young children (average age of 2;2, average MLU of 1.56) who were acquiring English and French simultaneously in the home. We observed the ways these children used their languages with monolingual strangers and with their bilingual parents. Specifically, the children's use of English-only, French-only, and mixed (English and French) utterances with the strangers during naturalistic play situations was compared with patterns of use with their parents, also during play sessions. We found that all of the children made some accommodations that could be linked to the monolingualism of the stranger; some of the children were more accommodating than others. The results are discussed in terms of young bilingual children's ability to modify their language on-line in response to the particular language characteristics of their interlocutors.