Language dominance in bilingual acquisition: A case study of narrative production in Lithuanian

Balčiūnienė, Ingrida; Dabašinskiené, Ineta

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“…The first stage of adapting the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (MAIN, Gagarina et al, 2019) to Lithuanian took place in 2012-2013, and pilot studies by Ingrida Balčiūnienė were conducted successfully. A few studies using the Lithuanian MAIN have been conducted with young monolingual, bilingual and language-impaired children, and the results are already partly available for readers (Balčiūnienė, 2013;Balčiūnienė & Dabašinskienė, 2019;Balčiūnienė & Kornev, 2016;Blažienė, 2015Blažienė, , 2016aBlažienė, , 2016bDabašinskienė & Krivickaitė-Leišienė, 2019).…”

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“…The first study that analysed both macro-and microstructural characteristics of Lithuanian as a heritage language was conducted by Balčiūnienė and Dabašinskienė (2019). Typicallydeveloping (TD) sequential bilingual (Lithuanian L1/English L2; n=12) and monolingual Lithuanian children (n=12) (mean age 74 months) were asked to tell the Baby Birds story.…”

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Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives: Recent developments and new language adaptations

Lindgren¹,

Tselekidou²,

Gagarina³

2023

Zaspil

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This volume contains ten papers that report on recent developments and new language versions of the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (MAIN). Eight papers describe a MAIN language version, including the typological characteristics of the language, the cultural context in which the language is used, and the processes of translating and adapting MAIN to the language. Some also present results from pilot studies or summaries of already published studies where the language version was used. The two final papers report on research conducted with MAIN, and discuss important methodological issues, for example concerning different elicitation methods.

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Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives: Recent developments and new language adaptations

Lindgren¹,

Tselekidou²,

Gagarina³

2023

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“…Since 2012, fictional stories of TD and PLI monolingual and bilingual children have been analyzed as a semi-structured data of narrative performance; the main macroand microstructural measures (such as story structure, episode completeness, general productivity, lexical diversity, and syntactic complexity) have been evaluated in each of the populations (Balčiūnienė 2012(Balčiūnienė , 2013Balčiūnienė, Kalninytė 2014;Blažienė 2016). For instance, a comparative analysis of narrative production in children acquiring Lithuanian as the first vs. a heritage language evidenced that monolinguals demonstrated greater (p < 0.05) lexical diversity and used a wider range (p < 0.05) of syntactic devices to create story cohesion than the heritage speakers, although a general story length (both in words and utterances) was higher (p < 0.05) in the heritage group (Balčiūnienė et al 2017). Additionally, such features as a simplified language declension system, numerous errors in modifier agreement, various difficulties using transitive verbs, prepositional phrases, and verbs with prefixes, and broadened and/or narrowed meanings of words were observed in bilingual (pre-) schoolers speaking Lithuanian as the first and English as the second language (Blažienė 2016).…”

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“…Finally, a part of narrative data was submitted for the statistical cross-linguistic comparative analysis (Gagarina et al 2013, Balčiūnienė & Kornev 2016. Among the papers based on the experimental corpus data of Lithuanian children, The Tool for Narrative Analysis in Bilingual Children (Balčiūnienė & Dabašinskienė 2012) and a doctoral thesis (Blažienė 2016) should be particularly mentioned not only as scientific studies but also as the methodological basis for language intervention.…”

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The Corpus of Lithuanian Children Language: Development and application for modern studies in language acquisition

Balčiūnienė¹,

Kamandulytė-Merfeldienė²

2018

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[full article and abstract in English] This paper describes The Corpus of Lithuanian Children’s Language and its possible applications for modern studies on the first language acquisition. First of all, the procedure of data collection for the Corpus is discussed. Furthermore, the main methodological principles of longitudinal and experimental data compilation and transciption are decribed. Finally, different studies in developmental psycholinguistics which have been carried out so far and which demonstrate possible ways of the application of the Corpus data for different scientific purposes are introduced. The Corpus of Lithuanian Children’s Language developed at Vytautas Magnus University comprises typical and atypical, longitudinal and experimental data of the Lithuanian language development. The Corpus was compiled using different methodological approaches, such as natural observation and semi-experiment. The longitudinal data (conversations between the target children and their caretakers) compiled according to the requirement of natural observation includes transcribed and morphologically annotated speech of two typically-developing children, one late talker, one early talker, one child from a low SES family, and a pair of twins. The data was collected during the period of 1993–2017 and and it can be divided into three cohorts. The semi-experimentaldata (~ 124 hours) comes from numerous studies in narratives and spontaneous dialogues elicited from typically-developing and language-impaired monolingual and bilingual (pre-) school age children. From the very beginning of data collection for the The Corpus of Lithuanian Children’s Language, studies in the develomental changes of typical child language have been carried out. Over the past decade, these studies have been supplemented by statistical analysis of elicited semi-experimental data; the majority of these studies deal with typical vs. atypical (delayed or impaired) language acquisition and with differences between acquision of Lithuanian in a monolingual vs. bi-/polylingual settings. The paper provides an overview of data of The Corpus of Lithuanian Children’s Language, which have been collected from 1993 but still needed to be structurized according to the employed methodology of data compilation and possible applications for different scientific purposes.

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Development of Applied Linguistics

Ramonienė

2024

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The aim of the article is to review the development of applied linguistics in Lithuania, analyse the general tendencies of the development of this science, and present the more prominent groups of researchers in applied linguistics, the schools that have been formed or are being formed, and the contribution of some researchers to the research of different branches of applied linguistics. The article focuses on the work started after the restoration of independence of the Republic of Lithuania in 1990, because only from that time onwards did the work of Lithuanian applied linguistics enter the international mainstream of this science. It discusses some of the research and practical work related to the research that helps or has helped in certain periods to solve problems related to language in life. First of all, the article introduces the works on teaching Lithuanian as a foreign language, which are connected with the beginning of applied linguistics in Lithuania, and which have laid the appropriate methodological foundations for the formation of communicative competence, for the development of a new type of textbooks, pedagogical grammars of the Lithuanian language, and for the creation of a system of assessment of competences. After discussing the origins of applied linguistics in Lithuania, the paper discusses the further development of this science. Research in the field of language acquisition, sociolinguistics, language attrition, cognitive linguistics, pragmatics, politeness and impoliteness, corpus and forensic linguistics, and other branches of applied linguistics is presented, and the real-life linguistic issues, analysed by Lithuanian researchers, are highlighted. The final section of the article describes the most important works of dissemination of applied linguistics and presents the research journal Taikomoji kalbotyra (“Applied Linguistics”), the international conferences on applied linguistics that have taken place in Lithuania, and the networks of researchers.

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Language dominance in bilingual acquisition: A case study of narrative production in Lithuanian

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Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives: Recent developments and new language adaptations

Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives: Recent developments and new language adaptations

The Corpus of Lithuanian Children Language: Development and application for modern studies in language acquisition

Development of Applied Linguistics

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