Parental Discourse and Codemixing in Bilingual Children  

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Nicoladis, Elena ; Genesee, Fred

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: International Journal of Bilingualism (Full Text) vol. 2 no. 1 (Mar. 1998), page 85-99.
Topik: children; codemixing; parental discoure
Fulltext: 85-99.pdf (1.02MB)

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Various explanations for young bilingual childrcn’s codemixing have been offered, including that it is influenced by the particular discoursc strategies parents use in conversation with their children. To date, Lanza (1992) has proposed the most explicit version ofthis hypothesis. She suggested that certain parcntal speech acts in response to children’s codemixing encourage continued codemixing while others discourage it. The present study was undertaken to replicatc Lanza’s study. Five French-English bilingual families in Montreal were studied, starting when most of the children were 2;O and continuing until they were 2;6. T\vo analyscs were performed; one looked at the relationship between parental style of response and children’s rates of codemixing and the second looked at the effect of particular responses on children’s codemixing in the next conversational turn. The results of both analyses did not support the hypothesis. \Ve suggest that the differences in sociolinguistic context between the two studies may account for the different results.

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