Publications

Publication details [#35806]

Kwan-Terry, Anna. 1992. Code-switching and code-mixing: The case of a child learning English and Chinese simultaneously. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 13 (3) : 243–259.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingual acquisition | child | code-mixing | code-switching

Language as a subject

Chinese, Cantonese | English

Place, Publisher

Multilingual Matters

ISBN

0143-4632

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This paper investigates the code-switching and code-mixing choices of a child acquiring simultaneously English and Cantonese Chinese, over a period when the whild was between 3;6 and 5;0.