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Publication details [#57564]

Wigglesworth, Gillian, Jane Simpson, Deborah Loakes, Karin Moses and Rosey Billington. 2013. Children’s language input: A study of a remote multilingual Indigenous Australian community. Multilingua 32 (5) : 683–711.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
De Gruyter

Annotation

This article explores the language input to five children aged two to four living in a small remote multilingual Indigenous Australian community. The majority of caregivers' input is in the local creole, indicating a quick shift from the traditional Walmajarri language, broadly spoken at the community's establishment in the late 1980s. Traditional language input mainly comes from older interlocutors, and Standard Australian English input stays minimal until formal school system entrance.