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Publication details [#29012]

Pan, Barbara Alexander. 1995. Code negotiation in bilingual families: ´My body starts speaking English´. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 16 (4) : 315–327.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingual acquisition | code-switching | language choice

Language as a subject

Chinese, Mandarin | English

Place, Publisher

Multilingual Matters

ISBN

0143-4632

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This paper deals with language choice and code-switching behavior in bilingual English-Chinese Singaporean families, whose primary language is Mandarin Chinese and with differences in parental and child behavior.