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Direct linkEmma Libersky; Caitlyn Slawny; Margarita Kaushanskaya – Infant and Child Development, 2025
Codeswitching is a common feature of bilingual language practices, yet its impact on word learning is poorly understood. Critically, processing costs associated with codeswitching may extend to learning. Moreover, verbs tend to be more difficult to learn than nouns, and the challenges of learning verbs could compound with processing costs…
Descriptors: Nouns, Verbs, Language Acquisition, Vocabulary Development
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)
Peer reviewedPrinz, Philip M.; Prinz, Elisabeth A. – Sign Language Studies, 1981
Studies the simultaneous language development in American Sign Language and spoken English by a hearing girl. Findings show: (1) a mixture of oral and manual babbling, (2) a code-switching ability across modalities, and (3) a single syntactic system incorporating rules from both languages but with two separate lexicons. (Author/PJM)
Descriptors: American Sign Language, Bilingualism, Child Language, Code Switching (Language)
Download full textHuerta, Ana – 1977
Research was conducted to examine the language acquisition of a Mexican-American child who has been brought up in a linguistic environment where code-switching between Spanish and English is the dominant style of speaking. In addition, the relation of code- switching to the acquisition of bilingualism is analyzed. The speech of the subject, a…
Descriptors: Biculturalism, Bilingualism, Child Development, Child Language
Fantini, Alvino E. – 1985
An ongoing longitudinal study, 15 years old at the time of publication, is reported. It is a sociolinguistic, developmental study of the acquisition of two languages, Spanish and English, by a boy from birth, with data drawn from direct observation and occasional tape recordings of speech. An introductory chapter outlines the objectives and method…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Case Studies, Child Language, Children
Auger, Julie; Rose, Yvan – 1997
Essays on lexicon and vocabulary development, all in French, address these topics: bilingual lexicon in the context of translation; lexical and conceptual representation in bilinguals; pronouns in "existential" constructions in French and English; configurational functions within grammar; Gustaf Stern's diachronic semantic schema; the…
Descriptors: American Indians, Bilingualism, Child Language, Code Switching (Language)
