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Publication details [#57562]

Sophocleous, Andry. 2013. Maya the Bee, Scooby Doo and other stories: How the public and private distinction is depicted in children’s bidialectal interactions in kindergarten. Multilingua 32 (5) : 627–657.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingualism | kindergarten | language choice | language variation | storytelling

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/MULT/html

Annotation

This paper elucidates how kindergarten children divide (though not always predictably) their social spheres into ‘public’ and ‘private’ by aptfully using bidialectal variation.