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Fine Lexical Tuning in Infant Directed Speech to Typically Developing Children
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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)
Input and Output in Code Switching: A Case Study of a Japanese-Chinese Bilingual Infant
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Meng, Hairong; Miyamoto, Tadao – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2012
Code switching (CS) (or language mixing) generally takes place in bilingual children's utterances, even if their parents adhere to the "one parent-one language" principle. The present case study of a Japanese-Chinese bilingual infant provides both quantitative and qualitative analyses on the impact of input on output, as manifested in CS. The…
Descriptors: Evidence, Language Dominance, Infants, Code Switching (Language)
Mode-Switching & Mode-Finding in a Hearing Child of Deaf Parents.
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Griffith, Penny L. – Sign Language Studies, 1985
Reports on a study which followed the language development of a hearing son of deaf parents from his seventeenth month to twenty-third month. Various aspects of the child's language acquisition in sign and speech are described, as is his early ability to alternate languages (sign and speech) according to addressee. (SED)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, Code Switching (Language), Deafness
Acquisition of American Sign Language and Spoken English in a Hearing Child of a Deaf Mother and Hearing Father: Phase II-Early Combinatorial Patterns of Communication.
Prinz, Philip M.; Prinz, Elisabeth A. – 1979
A study was conducted of the language development of a hearing child whose mother was deaf and communicated only in sign and whose father was hearing and communicated in both sign and oral language. Results showed similarities in development between the two modalities as well as similarity between development in two separate modalities and two…
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Bilingualism, Child Language, Code Switching (Language)
Reflection of a Phonologically-Mixed Environment in Early Speech.
Crow, Cheney – Texas Papers in Foreign Language Education, 1990
A case study analyzed the babbling and speech production of an infant, aged 20 to 24 months, whose family members spoke Portuguese, English, and French interchangeably. Focus was on vowel production, choice of lexicon, and the relationship between babbling and speech in the interaction of his languages. The child's utterances were recorded in…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Case Studies, Child Language, Code Switching (Language)
Babbling of Twins in a Bilingual Environment.
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Zlatic, Larisa; Macneilage, Peter; Matyear, Christine L.; Davis, Barbara L. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1997
Examines the phonetic characteristics of babbling by a pair of fraternal twins raised in a bilingual environment (English/Serbian). The study focused on the basic articulatory form of babbling, the impact of twinship on babbling patterns, and whether effects specific to one or another of the ambient languages could be observed. (30 references)…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, Code Switching (Language), Family Environment