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Odijk, Lotte; Gillis, Steven – Journal of Child Language, 2021
Do parents fine-tune the MLU of utterances with a particular word as the word is on the verge of appearing in the child's production? We analyzed a corpus of spontaneous interactions of 30 dyads. The children were in the initial stages of their lexical development, and the parents' utterances containing the words the children eventually acquired…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Interpersonal Communication, Speech Communication, Code Switching (Language)
Montanari, Simona; Ochoa, Wendy; Subrahmanyam, Kaveri – Journal of Child Language, 2019
This study examines language mixing in 26 Spanish-English dual language learners over the course of their first year of preschool. The children's patterns of language choice while interacting in monolingual language contexts were analyzed at age 3;6 and 4;5 to examine: (1) whether the frequency of language mixing changed during the year; (2)…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Preschool Children, Spanish, English
Montanari, Simona – Journal of Child Language, 2009
This study examines pragmatic differentiation in early trilingual development through a longitudinal analysis of language choice in a developing Tagalog-Spanish-English trilingual child. The child's patterns of language choice with different language users are analyzed at age 1 ; 10 and 2 ; 4 to examine: (1) whether evidence for pragmatic…
Descriptors: Language Patterns, Pragmatics, Multilingualism, Longitudinal Studies

Juan-Garau, Maria; Perez-Vidal, Carmen – Journal of Child Language, 2001
Investigates the relationship between a child's degree of bilingualism and features of parental input. Seeks to demonstrate that parental discourse strategies have a direct bearing on the levels of mixing present in a child's utterances in his weaker language (English). (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, Code Switching (Language), Language Acquisition

Edwards, A. D. – Journal of Child Language, 1976
The speech of 11-year-old children in different socioeconomic groups, was analyzed across a range of communicative tasks. On most "traditional" measures, consistent group differences did not appear. Significant differences were found on measures directly derived from the "planning principles" said by Bernstein to underlie restricted and elaborated…
Descriptors: Child Language, Code Switching (Language), Elementary School Students, Language Variation

Vihman, Marilyn May – Journal of Child Language, 1985
Examines the lexical and syntactic development of a bilingual child and the cognitive developments that coincided with the child's linguistic processes. Concludes that it is the development of self-awareness and sensitivity to standards in the second year which provides the motive for the child to avoid mixed-language utterances. (SED)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Development, Child Language, Code Switching (Language)

Lanza, Elizabeth – Journal of Child Language, 1992
This study applies perspectives from sociolinguistics to investigate the language mixing of a bilingual two year old acquiring Norwegian and English simultaneously in Norway. The investigation stresses the need to examine more carefully the roles of dominance and context in the language mixing of young bilingual children. (40 references) (JL)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, Code Switching (Language), English

Lindholm, Kathryn J.; Padilla, A. M. – Journal of Child Language, 1978
This article concludes that language mixes do not constitute a major interference in the acquisition of bilingualism since children appear to be able to differentiate their two linguistic systems from an early age. (Author/NCR)
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Bilingualism, Child Language, Code Switching (Language)

Genesee, Fred; And Others – Journal of Child Language, 1995
Examined language differentiation in bilingual toddlers prior to the emergence of functional categories. The children were observed with each parent separately and both together. Results indicate that while these children did code mix, they were able to differentiate between their two languages. There was some evidence that language dominance…
Descriptors: Audiotape Recordings, Bilingualism, Child Language, Code Switching (Language)