Codeswitching in Bilingual Children with Specific Language Impairment.
Codeswitching in Bilingual Children with Specific Language Impairment.
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10.1177/1367006909103530
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2009-03
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Leone AE
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Gutiérrez-Clellen VF;Cereijido GS;Leone AE
与具有典型语言的同龄人相比，患有特定语言障碍（SLI）的儿童表现出有限的语法技能。当在句子中交替使用两种语言（即语码转换）时，这些困难可能会暴露出来。 58 名患有或未患有 SLI 的西班牙语-英语儿童使用无字图画书和对话样本进行叙述。结果表明，不同年龄组或启发情境中具有语码转换（CS）的话语比例没有显着差异。语言优势、测试语言以及测试交互语言的显着优势都有显着影响。与以西班牙语为主的儿童以较弱的英语进行测试相比，以英语为主的儿童在使用非主导语言（西班牙语）进行测试时表现出更多的 CS。与典型的同龄人相比，患有 SLI 的儿童并没有表现出更多的 CS 或更多非典型 CS 模式的实例。研究结果表明，患有 SLI 的儿童尽管有语言困难，但仍能够使用语法 CS。此外，分析表明，CS 对社会语言变量很敏感，例如当家庭语言在更大的社会文化背景下不受社会支持时。在这些情况下，孩子可能会避免切换到家庭语言，即使那是他们的主导语言。
Children with specific language impairment (SLI) exhibit limited grammatical skills compared to their peers with typical language. These difficulties may be revealed when alternating their two languages (i.e., codeswitching) within sentences. Fifty-eight Spanish-English speaking children with and without SLI produced narratives using wordless picture books and conversational samples. The results indicated no significant differences in the proportion of utterances with codeswitching (CS) across age groups or contexts of elicitation. There were significant effects for language dominance, language of testing, and a significant dominance by language of testing interaction. The English-dominant children demonstrated more CS when tested in their nondominant language (Spanish) compared to the Spanish-dominant children tested in their weaker English. The children with SLI did not display more CS or more instances of atypical CS patterns compared to their typical peers. The findings indicate that children with SLI are capable of using grammatical CS, in spite of their language difficulties. In addition, the analyses suggest that CS is sensitive to sociolinguistic variables such as when the home language is not socially supported in the larger sociocultural context. In these cases, children may refrain from switching to the home language, even if that is their dominant language.