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Publication details [#30011]

Gawlitzek-Maiwald, Ira and Rosemarie Tracy. 1996. Bilingual bootstrapping. Linguistics 34 (5) : 901–926.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingual acquisition | bilingualism | knowledge | L1-acquisition | language mixing

Language as a subject

English | German

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter Mouton

ISBN

0024-3949

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/LING/html

Annotation

This paper deals with the linguistic knowledge related to the language mixing of young English/German bilinguals. It uses a bootstrapping metaphor to underscore the resourcefulness of the bilingual child.