Language Contact in Bilingual Two-year-olds and Code-switching: Language Encounters of a Different Kind?  

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Lanza, Elizabeth

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: International Journal of Bilingualism (Full Text) vol. 1 no. 2 (Sep. 1997), page 135-162.
Topik: bilingual children; language dominance; mixed utterance
Fulltext: 135-162.pdf (1.84MB)

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Language contact in the spcech ofchildren acquiring trio languages simultaneously has bcen claimed to be qualitatively different froin that of older more maturc bilingual speakers, that is, of their code-sivitching. This article argues for the position that these pattcms of language contact are in fact language encounters of thc same kind. The grammatical properties of the young bilingual child’s mixed uttcrances must be analyzed in light of the pragmatic dimensions of language use. hlorcover, the type of mixing that occurs may bc thc rcsult of ;I general imbalance in language input. Such an imbalance may affect language processing resulting in language dominance. Finally, current \\ark in codc-switching, \vhich delineates constraints on language contact, also lends support to the stand that there is 1io qualitative difference bctwecn the mixing patterns of young bilingual two-year-olds and that of more niaturc bilingual speakers

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