Instructions:
The CHILDES database (Links to an external site.) https://childes.talkbank.org/: Is a publicly available corpus of child language transcripts from research studies.
Download and review the excerpt below from a language transcript from Perez (2002)
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https://childes.talkbank.org/access/Biling/Perez.html
of an interaction between a 24-month old simultaneous Spanish-English bilingual child and his father.
Language Transcript
Answer the following questions. (Your responses to each question should be 1-3 sentences, or a bulleted list)
1. Based on the readings and your knowledge of child language development, what can you infer about this child’s expressive and receptive language abilities. Consider the child’s syntactic, semantic, pragmatic abilities and describe at least 3 features/skills you notice.
2. Drawing on the assigned reading about bilingual language acquisition, how would you characterize the child’s language dominance based on this transcript?
3. (a) Identify and list 3 examples of code-switching by the child.
(b) How would you characterize the child’s code-switching. Did the codeswitching occur within an utterance or between utterances?
(c) What purpose do you think the child’s code-switching serves?
4. (a) Identify and list 3 examples of code-switching by the father.
(b) How would you characterize the father’s code-switching?
(c) what purpose do you think the father’s code-switching serves?
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