Slawny Caitlyn, Libersky Emma, Kaushanskaya Margarita
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
J Speech Lang Hear Res. 2025 Mar 5;68(3):1092-1104. doi: 10.1044/2024_JSLHR-24-00240. Epub 2025 Feb 20.
In the current study, we examined the alignment of language choice of bilingual parent-child dyads in play-based interactions.
Forty-four bilingual Spanish-English parent-child dyads participated in a 10-min naturalistic free-play interaction to determine whether bilingual children and their parents respond to each other in the same language(s) across conversational turns and whether children's language ability and children's and parents' language dominance affect language alignment. Children's language ability was indexed by the Bilingual English-Spanish Assessment. Logistic regression was used to test the effects of children's language ability and children's and parents' language dominance on the alignment of language choice.
Results revealed that children and parents largely aligned their language choice and that children's and parents' language dominance, but not children's language ability, influenced alignment. Patterns of alignment differed between children and parents. Children aligned to their dominant language, and this was true for both English- and Spanish-dominant children. In contrast, English-dominant parents aligned equally to both languages, whereas Spanish-dominant parents aligned significantly more to Spanish.
Together, these findings suggest that bilinguals' alignment of language choice is deeply sensitive to language dominance effects in both children and adults but that parents may also choose their language strategically in conversations with their children.
在本研究中，我们考察了双语亲子二元组在基于游戏的互动中语言选择的一致性。
44个讲西班牙语和英语的双语亲子二元组参与了一场10分钟的自然主义自由游戏互动，以确定双语儿童及其父母在对话轮次中是否使用同一种语言进行回应，以及儿童的语言能力、儿童和父母的语言优势是否会影响语言一致性。儿童的语言能力通过《双语英语 - 西班牙语评估》来衡量。使用逻辑回归来检验儿童的语言能力、儿童和父母的语言优势对语言选择一致性的影响。
结果显示，儿童和父母在很大程度上使他们的语言选择保持一致，并且儿童和父母的语言优势而非儿童的语言能力影响了一致性。儿童和父母之间的一致性模式有所不同。儿童会使用其占主导地位的语言，这在英语主导和西班牙语主导的儿童中都是如此。相比之下，英语主导的父母对两种语言的使用频率相同，而西班牙语主导的父母对西班牙语的使用频率明显更高。
总体而言，这些发现表明，双语者的语言选择一致性对儿童和成人的语言优势效应都非常敏感，但父母在与孩子的对话中也可能会策略性地选择语言。
