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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Biling (Camb Engl). 2014 Apr;17(2):364–383. doi: 10.1017/S1366728913000424

Table 7.

Percentage of bilingual children in Experiment 2 whose parent-rated language dominance matched or differed from objective measures of dominance. For cases in which parent-ratings and objective classifications of dominance do not match the range of discrepancy in scores is indicated in parentheses.

Rated by Parents as Mandarin dominant(n=5)

Objectively Mandarin-dominant Objectively balanced Objective English-dominant
Oral proficiency interview 40% 40% 20%
(0%) (10%)
Multilingual naming test 0% 40% 60%
((-1.5%) - 4.4%) (26%-38%)
Rated by Parents as Balanced(n=3)
Oral proficiency interview 0% 67% 33%
(10%)
Multilingual naming test 0% 0% 100%
(7%-60%)
Rated by Parents as English-dominant(n=19)
Oral proficiency interview 21% 5% 74%
(-10.0%) 0%
Multilingual naming test 0% 0% 100%