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Description

1. xii, 397 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

1. This book addresses the issue of language contact in the context of child language acquisition. Elizabeth Lanza examines in detail the simultaneous acquisition of Norwegian and English by two first-born children in families living in Norway in which the mother is American and the father Norwegian. She connects psycholinguistic arguments with sociolinguistic evidence, adding a much-needed dimension of real language-use in context to the psycholinguistic studies which have dominated the field. She draws upon evidence from other studies to support her claims concerning language dominance and the child's differentiation between the two languages in relation to the situation, interlocutor, and the communicative demands of the context. She also addresses the question of whether or not the language mixing of infant bilingualism is conceptually different from the codeswitching of older bilinguals, thus helping to bridge the gap between these two fields of study.

Series statement

1. Oxford studies in language contact

Uniform title

1. Oxford studies in language contact

Subject

1. Bilingualism in children > Norway
2. Language acquisition
3. Languages, Mixed
4. English language > Acquisition
5. Norwegian language > Acquisition
6. Discourse analysis
7. Bilingualism in children
8. Spracherwerb
9. Soziolinguistik
10. Zweisprachigkeit
11. Tweetaligheid
12. Taalverwerving
13. Kinderen
14. Anglais (langue) > Acquisition
15. Norvégien (langue) > Acquisition
16. Langues mixtes
17. Bilinguisme chez l'enfant > Norvège
18. Acquisition du langage
19. Analyse du discours
20. Norway
21. Norwegisch
22. Englisch

Contents

1. 1. Introduction -- 2. Language Mixing: Some Linguistic, Psycholinguistic, Neurolinguistic, and Sociolinguistic Issues -- 3. 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 -- App. I. Description of Language Samples: Siri and Tomas -- App. II. Siri: Mixed Utterances -- App. III. Tomas: Mixed Utterances -- App. IV. Consent Form -- App. V. Conventions for Transcribing Tapes -- App. VI. Keeping a Diary of a Bilingual Child's Language Development -- App. VII. Extra Tables (not in the text).

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Note

1. Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--Georgetown University, 1990.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [362]-387) and index.