Language Mixing in Infant Bilingualism - A Sociolinguistic Perspective

Zusatztext a timely contribution to the field of bilingual acquisition research ... offers a rare but much needed social-interactional and context-based perspective on early bilingual development ... the main strength of Lanza's approach ... lies in the highly detailed and insightful analyses of the dynamics of parent-child interactions and their effect on children's language choice ... Lanza has done the field of bilingual acquisition research a great favor by drawing attention to the more sociolinguistic, interactional aspects of early bilingual development ... future research into bilingual acquisition can now no longer ignore the importance of the sociolinguistic dimension of learning to speak more than one language from infancy. Klappentext This study examines the simultaneous acquisition of Norwegian and English by two first-born children each with one American and one Norwegian parent. Lanza investigates the issue of language mixing in relation to language dominance and the child's differentiation between the two languages in relation to the communicative demands of the context. Zusammenfassung Examines the simultaneous acquisition of Norwegian and English by two first-born children each with one American and one Norwegian parent. Investigates the issue of language mixing in relation to language dominance and the child's differentiation between the two languages in relation to the communicative demands of the context.

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• Authors: Elizabeth Lanza, Elizabeth (Professor of Applied Linguistics Lanza, Lanza Elizabeth
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.03.1997
• EAN: 9780198235750
• ISBN: 978-0-19-823575-0
• No. of pages: 416
• Series: Oxford Studies in Language Contact; Oxford Studies in Language Con; Oxford Studies in Language Con; Oxford Studies in Language Contact
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Sociolinguistics, American English, Norwegian, Language acquisition, Bilingualism & multilingualism, Bilingualism and multilingualism