Elizabeth Lanza

Language Mixing in Infant Bilingualism

A Sociolinguistic Perspective

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Produktbeschreibung

This book 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 children's differentiation between the two languages in relation to the communicative demands of the context. This new paperback edition contains an extensive updated bibliography.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 424
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 641g
• ISBN-13: 9780199265060
• ISBN-10: 0199265062
• Artikelnr.: 23186921

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth Lanza is Professor of Applied Linguistics at the University of Oslo.

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: Introduction
* 2: Language Mixing: Some Psycholinguistic, Neurolinguistic, and
Sociolinguistic Issues
* 3: A Study in Infant Bilingualism
* 4: Language Mixing by the Young Bilingual Child: Some Formal Aspects
* 5: Language Choice by the Young Bilingual Child: Form and Function in
Discourse
* 6: Language Mixing and Language Input: Parental Discourse Strategies
* 7: Conclusion
* Afterword
* Appendices
* References