Typicality Effect and Category Structure in Spanish–English Bilingual Children and Adults

Shivabasappa, Prarthana; Peña, Elizabeth D.; Bedore, Lisa M.

doi:10.1044/2016_jslhr-l-15-0377

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“…The category of food had the least convergence scores. Similar results were seen in previous studies involving these categories (Ross & Murphy, 1999;Shivabasappa et al, 2017). This pattern of convergence reflects the nature of these semantic categories.…”

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“…Higher convergence scores also indicate that they produced more typical items. Similar findings were also reported by Shivabasappa et al (2017), who found that TD children produced typical items earlier in the slot-filler conditions than in the taxonomic conditions. Children have more experience categorizing using slot-filler strategies as they begin to use such strategies from younger ages (Nelson & Nelson, 1990).…”

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confidence: 89%

“…Thus, it is thought that the process of having to learn a greater number of words across their two languages may push children into using a more adultlike taxonomic strategy earlier. Recently, Shivabasappa, Peña, and Bedore (2017) evaluated the effects of language use and age on the generation of typical category members in a semantic category fluency in Spanish-English bilingual children and adults. They determined the typicality of category items based on adult production frequency, with typical items having higher production frequencies.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…They were heritage Spanish speakers living in central Texas. The adult participants and TD children were part of the data set reported in the study by Shivabasappa et al (2017).…”

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Semantic Category Convergence in Spanish–English Bilingual Children With and Without Developmental Language Disorder

Shivabasappa

Peña

Bedore

2019

J Speech Lang Hear Res

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Purpose The study examines the extent of convergence of semantic category members in Spanish–English bilingual children with reference to adults using a semantic fluency task. Method Thirty-seven children with developmental language disorder (DLD), matched pairwise with 37 typically developing (TD) children in the age range of 7;0–9;11 (years;months), produced items in 7 semantic categories (3 taxonomic and 4 slot-filler) in both Spanish and English. The 10 most frequently produced items for each category by 20 Spanish–English bilingual adults were identified as the most prototypical responses. The top 10 items generated by TD children and children with DLD, in their order of production, were analyzed for the amount of convergence with adults' responses. Results The top 5 items produced by children with DLD showed similar convergence scores as those produced by their TD peers. However, their responses in the 6th to 10th positions showed lower convergence scores than their TD peers. Children's convergence scores were higher for the slot-filler condition compared to taxonomic in both English and Spanish. The convergence scores also significantly differed across the semantic categories. Conclusion The children with DLD show greater convergence on the typical items generated earlier in their word lists than the items generated later. This pattern of convergence and divergence highlights their strengths and weaknesses in the representation of lexical–semantic knowledge for typical versus less typical items. Supplemental Material https://doi.org/10.23641/asha.8323613

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Section: Semantic Categoriessupporting

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Section: Taxonomic/slot-filler Condition Group and Test Language Comparisonssupporting

confidence: 89%

Section: Category Fluency Taskmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…They were heritage Spanish speakers living in central Texas. The adult participants and TD children were part of the data set reported in the study by Shivabasappa et al (2017).…”

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Semantic Category Convergence in Spanish–English Bilingual Children With and Without Developmental Language Disorder

Shivabasappa

Peña

Bedore

2019

J Speech Lang Hear Res

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“…As mentioned previously, the LUQ is commonly used in research with healthy and disordered populations. For example, the LUQ has been used to measure language proficiency in studies examining lexical access of bilingual healthy children (Shivabasappa et al, 2017) and adults (Kastenbaum et al 2019;Peñaloza et al, 2019b;Shivabasappa et al, 2017), and the relationship between language processing and rehabilitation in bilingual adults with aphasia (Dekhtyar et al, 2020;Grasso et al, 2019;Gray, 2017;Kiran & Iakupova, 2011;Kiran et al, 2013;Peñaloza et al, 2019a;Sebastian et al, 2012).…”

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A novel approach to assessing language proficiency in adults: A pre-pilot classification accuracy study

Schwarz¹,

Reséndiz

Herrera³

et al. 2021

International Journal of Bilingualism

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Aims and objectives/purpose/research questions: Speech–language pathologists who speak more than one language and who are members of the American Speech–Language–Hearing Association self-identify in one yes/no question whether they have the proficiency level to be bilingual service providers. This research note describes a preliminary attempt to address the very practical issue of whether and in what circumstances Spanish–English bilinguals can accurately judge their proficiency levels in both languages. The research question is: Will bilingual adults accurately identify their first language and second language proficiency levels using a self-assessment when compared to a commonly used standardized norm-referenced test (SNRT) in both formal and informal contexts across the following outcome measures: (a) overall proficiency; (b) listening; (c) speaking; (d) reading; and (e) writing? Design/methodology/approach: Classification accuracy studies require at least 34 participants. Thirty-nine participants completed the commonly used Language Use Questionnaire (LUQ) self-assessment and the commonly used Woodcock–Muñoz Language Survey SNRT (WMLS-III). For this pre-pilot study, participants were Spanish–English bilingual university students. Data and analysis: Forty likelihood ratios (LRs) were calculated. Benchmarks for interpreting LRs for classification accuracy studies were applied to identify the likelihood of an individual being proficient or non-proficient in two languages. Findings/conclusions: For the overall proficiency and formal speaking proficiency outcomes in Spanish, positive LRs met the benchmark for strong agreement. Originality: The current study is the first to show that Spanish–English bilingual adults can accurately judge their Spanish proficiency levels for two specific outcome measures. Significance/implications: These results are important for two reasons. First, they suggest that Spanish–English bilingual adults can accurately judge their overall proficiency levels in Spanish. Second, they identify which outcome measures from the LUQ and WMLS-III should be considered in a future classification accuracy study.

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Are French Fries a Vegetable? Lexical Typicality Judgement Differences in Deaf and Hearing Learners

Crowe

Marschark

2019

J Psycholinguist Res

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Typicality Effect and Category Structure in Spanish–English Bilingual Children and Adults

Abstract: Supplemental Materials: https://doi.org/10.23641/asha.5089888.

Cited by 9 publications

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Semantic Category Convergence in Spanish–English Bilingual Children With and Without Developmental Language Disorder

Semantic Category Convergence in Spanish–English Bilingual Children With and Without Developmental Language Disorder

A novel approach to assessing language proficiency in adults: A pre-pilot classification accuracy study

Are French Fries a Vegetable? Lexical Typicality Judgement Differences in Deaf and Hearing Learners

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