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Publication details [#34948]

Fantini, Alvino E. 1985. Language acquisition of a bilingual child: A sociolinguistic perspective (to age ten). (Multilingual Matters 17). Multilingual Matters. xi + 265 pp.

Publication type

Book – monograph

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingual acquisition | child language | ethnography of speaking | language acquisition | sociolinguistics

Language as a subject

English | Spanish

Annotation

This book provides a kind of ethnography of speaking of the developing bilingual English and Spanish language use of the author's son, Mario, up to age ten, in a predominantly English-speaking environment.

Reviewed by

Hornberger, Nancy H. 1989. Review of $Language acquisition of a bilingual child: A sociolinguistic perspective (to age ten).