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Language Switching as a Window on Trilingual Acquisition
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Stavans, Anat; Swisher, Virginia – International Journal of Multilingualism, 2006
The present study discusses and describes codeswitches produced by two trilingual children acquiring English, Spanish and Hebrew simultaneously from birth. Data were collected regularly over a period of 20 months (from age 2;6 to 4;2 for M and from age 5;5 to 7;1 for E), in naturalistic tape-recorded sessions. Codeswitches drawn from…
Descriptors: English (Second Language), Multilingualism, Code Switching (Language), Second Language Learning