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Publication details [#30012]

Köppe, Regina. 1996. Language differentiation in bilingual children: The development of grammatical and pragmatic competence. Linguistics 34 (5) : 927–954.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingual acquisition | L1-acquisition | language differentiation | language mixing

Language as a subject

French | German

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter Mouton

ISBN

0024-3949

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This paper explores formal as well as functional aspects of early language mixing in German/French bilingual children. It is demonstrated that language mixing can be interpreted in terms of developing pragmatic competence.