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Publication details [#61517]
Houwer, Annick De and Marc H. Bornstein. 2016. Bilingual mothers’ language choice in child-directed speech: continuity and change. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 37 (7) : 680–693.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
Routledge
Journal WWW
Annotation
This study reveals longitudinal continuity in the language most bilingual mothers (31) chiefly spoke with their children, offering children increasing language input learning chances. The casual use of the other language in over half the sample when children were 20 months discloses a possible result of children's general language growth level and the objection of clinging to a severe ‘one person, one language’ policy.