Redlinger, Wendy E.; Park, Tschang-Zin (1980). Language mixing in young bilinguals. Journal of child language, 7(2), pp. 337-352. Cambridge University Press 10.1017/S030500090000266X
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The speech of four two-year-old children growing up bilingually in a German-speaking community was studied for periods varying between five and nine months. An analysis of their language mixing revealed an initially higher rate of mixing which diminished with a growth in language development as measured in MLU. The data suggest that the children were at various stages in a gradual process of language differentiation thus providing support for the one-system theory of bilingual acquisition. An examination of the distribution of lexical substitutions by part of speech revealed that nouns were most frequently substituted by all children; however, more function words were substituted than content words overall.
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Journal Article (Original Article) |
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Division/Institute: |
06 Faculty of Humanities > Department of Linguistics and Literary Studies > Institute of Linguistics 07 Faculty of Human Sciences > Institute of Psychology > Developmental Psychology |
ISSN: |
0305-0009 |
Publisher: |
Cambridge University Press |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Marceline Brodmann |
Date Deposited: |
04 Aug 2020 12:26 |
Last Modified: |
30 May 2023 14:56 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.1017/S030500090000266X |
PubMed ID: |
7410498 |
BORIS DOI: |
10.7892/boris.115440 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/115440 |
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