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Code-switching in Bilingual Children
Katja F. Cantone
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Paperback. Series: Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics. Num Pages: 276 pages, biography. BIC Classification: CFDM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 508.
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
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Number of pages
276
Condition
New
Series
Studies in Theoretical Psycholinguistics
Number of Pages
276
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9789048174447
SKU
V9789048174447
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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