Language Mixing in Infant Bilingualism: A Sociolinguistic Perspective

By Elizabeth Lanza

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198235755
• ISBN13: 9780198235750
• Release Date: May 1997
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"