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Area of Science:

  • Psycholinguistics
  • Bilingualism Studies
  • Child Development

Background:

  • Bilingual children and their parents navigate multiple languages in daily interactions.
  • Understanding language choice alignment in bilingual families is crucial for developmental and linguistic research.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate language choice alignment in bilingual Spanish-English parent-child dyads during play-based interactions.
  • To determine the influence of children's language ability and parent/child language dominance on language alignment.

Main Methods:

  • Naturalistic 10-minute free-play interactions were recorded for 44 bilingual parent-child dyads.
  • The Bilingual English-Spanish Assessment (BESA) was used to measure children's language ability.
  • Logistic regression analysis examined the impact of language dominance and ability on alignment.

Main Results:

  • A high degree of language alignment was observed between children and parents.
  • Language dominance significantly affected alignment, while children's overall language ability did not.
  • Children consistently aligned with their dominant language; parents' alignment varied by dominance (English-dominant parents aligned to both, Spanish-dominant parents to Spanish).

Conclusions:

  • Bilinguals' language choice alignment is strongly influenced by language dominance in both children and adults.
  • Parents may strategically adjust their language use in conversations with bilingual children.