Acquisition during normative code-mixing: Trinidadian children’s varilingual pronoun usage
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DOI: 10.1177/01427237221147614
Abstract: While monolingual English speakers acquire most pronouns by age 5, acquisition amid prevalent, normative code-mixing, such as in Trinidad, is underexplored. This study examines how Trinidadian 3- to 5-year-olds express third-person subject, object, reflexive and… read more here.
Keywords: normative code; code mixing; language; creole ... See more keywords
The Building Blocks of Child Bilingual Code-Mixing: A Cross-Corpus Traceback Approach
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DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.682838
Abstract: This paper offers an inductive, exploratory study on the role of input and individual differences in the early code-mixing of bilingual children. Drawing on data from two German-English bilingual children, aged 2–4, we use the… read more here.
Keywords: traceback; building blocks; code; code mixing ... See more keywords