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Code-switching in Bilingual Children
Katja F. Cantone
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Description for Code-switching in Bilingual Children
Hardback. Demonstrates that mixed utterances in young bilinguals can be analyzed in the same way as adult code-switching. This title provides fresh insights in the field of code-switching and of language mixing in young bilinguals, and in issues concerning general questions on linguistic theory which are difficult to be answered with monolingual data. Series: Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics. Num Pages: 276 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFDM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 592.
This study investigates the issue of code-switching in young bilingual children, in particular, intra-sentential switches, that is, mixing within an utterance. The data come from five bilingual Italian/German ch- dren (age 1;8 to 5 years), who grew up in Hamburg, Germany. The term bilingual is used in order to describe a person who has been exposed to both languages from birth on (Meisel 1989:20). Hence, this work is placed within the research field of Bilingual First Language Acquisition. The present book discusses three main issues. The first assumption concerns language mixing in young bilingual children. Differently from former studies on ... Read more
This study investigates the issue of code-switching in young bilingual children, in particular, intra-sentential switches, that is, mixing within an utterance. The data come from five bilingual Italian/German ch- dren (age 1;8 to 5 years), who grew up in Hamburg, Germany. The term bilingual is used in order to describe a person who has been exposed to both languages from birth on (Meisel 1989:20). Hence, this work is placed within the research field of Bilingual First Language Acquisition. The present book discusses three main issues. The first assumption concerns language mixing in young bilingual children. Differently from former studies on ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Number of pages
276
Condition
New
Series
Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics
Number of Pages
276
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9781402057830
SKU
V9781402057830
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Reviews for Code-switching in Bilingual Children
From the reviews: “Both empirically and theoretically, Katja F. Cantone’s ambitious study on language mixing in young German-Italian bilinguals is a promising … . The book’s introduction and eight substantive chapters develop the intriguing premise that young bilinguals’ mixed utterances are not due to developmental factors and … should be analyzed no differently from adult code-switching. … This present ... Read more