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Publication details [#50021]

Genesee, Fred, Liane Comeau and MORTON MENDELSON. 2007. Bilingual children’s repairs of breakdowns in communication. Journal of Child Language 34 (1) : 159–174.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingualism | communication breakdown | misunderstanding | pre-school age | repair

Language as a subject

English | French

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

The findings of this study demonstrate that even two-and-a-half-year-old (in casu French–English) bilingual children are able to define their language choice as a cause of misunderstanding and that they can differentiate language breakdowns from other forms of communication breakdowns.