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Laetitia de Almeida Center of Linguistics University of Lisbon lalmeida@letras.ulisboa.pt |
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Margarida Possidónio Arts and Humanities University of Lisbon possidonio@edu.ulisboa.pt |
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Mariana Castro Arts and Humanities University of Lisbon castrom@edu.ulisboa.pt |
| Participants: | 26 |
| Type of Study: | cross-sectional |
| Location: | Portugal |
| Media type: | audio |
| DOI: | xxx |
Almeida, L., Possidónio, M., & Castro, M. (2024). The Acquisition of Branching Onsets in Simultaneous French–Portuguese Bilingual Children: The Effect of Age, Language, Cluster Type, and Dominance. Languages, 9(12), 384. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages9120384
In accordance with TalkBank rules, any use of data from this corpus must be accompanied by at least one of the above references.
This corpus consists of the elicited productions of 26* French–Portuguese typically developing bilingual children aged between 3;6 and 6;1. Twelve are boys and eighteen are girls. Ten of them are in the first grade, ten are in the second grade, and the remaining ten are in the third grade of a bilingual preschool in Portugal.
All the children are simultaneous bilinguals exposed to both languages from birth.
19 children appear to be balanced bilinguals, 9 French-dominant, and 2 Portuguese-dominant.
All children were assessed using two picture-naming tasks from the Cross-Linguistic Child Phonology project, namely the Standard French and the European Portuguese versions (Almeida et al. 2015; Ramalho et al. 2014); Available online https://phonodevelopment.sites.olt.ubc.ca/
In these tasks, children are asked to help the researcher to tell a story shown in the sequencing of the pictures. Concretely, the researcher reads a sentence and asks the child to fill in the missing word(s). In total, 126 words are elicited in French and 157 in Portuguese. The list of the words for both languages is available at https://phonodevelopment.sites.olt.ubc.ca/liste_mot_francais- standard_almeida_berube_bernhardt_stemberger_oct2015/ and https://phonodevelopment.sites.olt.ubc.ca/apendice-d-a-2-folha-de- registo-clcp-pe-1-2/
*30 children were included in the study but 4 parents did not authorize sharing of the data in PhonBank.