Publications

Publication details [#56758]

Miyamoto, Tadao and Hairong Meng. 2012. Input and output in code switching: a case study of a Japanese–Chinese bilingual infant. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 15 (4) : 393–415.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingual acquisition | code-switching | language dominance | language input | mother-child conversation

Language as a subject

Chinese | Japanese

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

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

Annotation

This quantitative and qualitative analysis of the effect of dominant Chinese parental input on (still strong Japanese-dominant) output in a Japanese–Chinese bilingual infant, argues that language dominance can better explain the infants's increased output code switching.