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Inter-individual variation among young children growing up in a bidialectal community

The acquisition of dialect and standard Dutch vocabulary
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Abstract

This study focuses on the relationship between dialect use and the acquisition of standard Dutch vocabulary by young children in the Dutch province of Limburg.1 The results of a newly-developed dialect expressive vocabulary task show extensive inter-individual variation that does not support a dichotomous distinction between monolingual and bidialectal children. The children’s dialect vocabulary scores are neither positively nor negatively associated with their results on a standardized receptive Dutch vocabulary task. Thus, the acquisition of a dialect does not hinder or facilitate the acquisition of standard Dutch vocabulary.

Abstract

This study focuses on the relationship between dialect use and the acquisition of standard Dutch vocabulary by young children in the Dutch province of Limburg.1 The results of a newly-developed dialect expressive vocabulary task show extensive inter-individual variation that does not support a dichotomous distinction between monolingual and bidialectal children. The children’s dialect vocabulary scores are neither positively nor negatively associated with their results on a standardized receptive Dutch vocabulary task. Thus, the acquisition of a dialect does not hinder or facilitate the acquisition of standard Dutch vocabulary.

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Introduction vii
  4. Plenaries
  5. Analytic and synthetic 3
  6. A case for clustering speakers and linguistic variables 23
  7. Dynamics, variation and the brain 47
  8. Individual chapters
  9. Aggregate analysis of lexical variation in Galician 71
  10. Inter-individual variation among young children growing up in a bidialectal community 85
  11. The unruly dialect variant [a] 99
  12. Vowel raising and vowel deletion as sociolinguistic variables in Northern Greek 113
  13. Between local and standard varieties 125
  14. Syntactic doubling and variation 141
  15. Variation in style 157
  16. A corpus-based study of concessive conjunctions in three L1-varieties of English 173
  17. Variation in the structure of conjunctions in Luxembourgish German in the 19th century 185
  18. Geolinguistic documentation of multilingual areas 199
  19. Variation in Croatian 215
  20. Index 233
Language Variation - European Perspectives VI
This chapter is in the book Language Variation - European Perspectives VI
https://doi.org/10.1075/silv.19.05fra

Chapters in this book

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. Introduction vii
  4. Plenaries
  5. Analytic and synthetic 3
  6. A case for clustering speakers and linguistic variables 23
  7. Dynamics, variation and the brain 47
  8. Individual chapters
  9. Aggregate analysis of lexical variation in Galician 71
  10. Inter-individual variation among young children growing up in a bidialectal community 85
  11. The unruly dialect variant [a] 99
  12. Vowel raising and vowel deletion as sociolinguistic variables in Northern Greek 113
  13. Between local and standard varieties 125
  14. Syntactic doubling and variation 141
  15. Variation in style 157
  16. A corpus-based study of concessive conjunctions in three L1-varieties of English 173
  17. Variation in the structure of conjunctions in Luxembourgish German in the 19th century 185
  18. Geolinguistic documentation of multilingual areas 199
  19. Variation in Croatian 215
  20. Index 233
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