The Ivy Hypothesis differs from the Dominant Language Hypothesis and Bilingual Bootstrapping Hypothesis in developmental scope and hierarchical prediction¶
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q2 i? The Ivy Hypothesis differs from the Dominant Language Hypothesis in that it is conditioned by developmental stage and predicts hierarchically governed mixing applying to all phrase types, not only bound morphemes. → Bernardini 2004
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Bernardini 2004¶
Bernardini, P., & Schlyter, S. (2004). Growing syntactic structure and code-mixing in the weaker language: The Ivy Hypothesis. Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 7(1), 49-69. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1366728904001270
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Theoretical comparison of the Ivy Hypothesis with the Dominant Language Hypothesis (Petersen, 1988). The authors note Petersen's study period was at age 3;2 with productive morpheme use in both languages, and that the Dominant Language Hypothesis is not conditioned by developmental stage.
"The Ivy Hypothesis also differs from the Dominant Language Hypothesis in that it predicts code-mixing from the Stronger Language to be hierarchically governed and apply to all kinds of phrases, not only bound morphemes."
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Related Claims¶
- Code-mixing decreases and ceases as the weaker language syntactic structure develops to CP level — related
- Mixed utterances reflect the same amount of syntactic structure as monolingual utterances in the weaker language at the same recording — related
- Children with uneven bilingual development prefer the stronger language and mix sentence-internally mainly in weaker-language interactions — related
- The amount of input in each language is related to syntactic development and language dominance — related
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The Ivy Hypothesis differs from the Dominant Language Hypothesis and Bilingual Bootstrapping Hypothesis in developmental scope and hierarchical prediction |
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The Ivy Hypothesis differs from the Dominant Language Hypothesis and Bilingual Bootstrapping Hypothesis in developmental scope and hierarchical prediction |
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