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Müller, Natascha, Laia Arnaus Gil and Meike Poeste. 2019. Code-mixing and language dominance: bilingual, trilingual and multilingual children compared. The International Journal of Multilingualism 16 (4) : 459–491.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
bilingualism | child language | code-mixing | language dominance | multilingualism | trilingualism | typology
Place, Publisher
Routledge

Annotation

Acquisitionists generally assume a relation between code-mixing in young bilingual and trilingual children and language dominance. This cross-sectional inquiry explored the possible relation between code-mixing and language dominance in 122 children raised in Spain or Germany. They were bilingual, trilingual or multilingual, the latter acquiring more than three languages.