Language Mixing in Infant Bilingualism: A Sociolinguistic Perspective (Oxford Studies in Language Contact) - Hardcover

Lanza, Elizabeth

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0198235755 ISBN 13: 9780198235750

Publisher: Clarendon Press, 1997

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Elizabeth Lanza is an Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics at University of Oslo.

Review:

`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.'
Annick De Houwer, Anthropological Linguistics 41 no3, 1999

About this edition

• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0198235755
• ISBN 13: 9780198235750
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 416