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Direct linkBernardini, Petra; Schlyter, Suzanne – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2004
We present a hypothesis for a specific kind of code-mixing in young bilingual children, during the development of their two first languages, one of which is considerably weaker than the other. Our hypothesis, which we label the Ivy Hypothesis, is that, in the interaction meant to be in the weaker language, the child uses portions of higher…
Descriptors: Syntax, Monolingualism, Bilingualism, Linguistic Theory
