Publications

Publication details [#44373]

Stavans, Anat and Virginia Swisher. 2006. Language Switching as a Window on Trilingual Acquisition. The International Journal of Multilingualism 3 (3) : 193–220.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

child | code-switching | L3-acquisition

Language as a subject

English | Hebrew | Spanish

Place, Publisher

Multilingual Matters

Annotation

This study describes and accounts for trilingual codeswitches in two children learning English, Spanish and Hebrew simultaneously from birth. Data are regularly collected over a period of 20 months, from age 2;6 to 4;2 for subject 1 and from age 5;5 to 7;1 for subject 2.