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Publication details [#36581]

Youssef, Valerie. 1991. 'Can I put - I want a slippers to put on': Young children's development of request forms in a code-switching environment. Journal of Child Language 18 (3) : 609–624.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

child language | code-switching | L1-acquisition | requesting, L1-acquisition of | sociolinguistics

Language as a subject

Creole, West Indian English | English

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

ISBN

0305-009

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This study deals with infants' development of request forms in a Trinidadian code-switching environment, emphasizing the importance of the specific input of particular forms and of sociolinguistic aspects of acquisition.