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Berman, Ruth A. – 1979
Insight into processes involved in child bilingualism is provided by this account of the "primary language acquisition" (in the sense of Lamendella, 1977) of two languages, English and Hebrew, by a 4 1/2 year old subject. The child's re-entry into her first language, Hebrew, after a year spent in an all-English environment, is traced. Of central…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, Code Switching (Language), Communicative Competence (Languages)