Hearing words in sentences facilitates word recognition in monolingual children. Many children grow up receiving input in multiple languages -- including exposure to sentences that 'mix' the languages. We explored Spanish-English bilingual toddlers' (n = 24) ability to identify familiar words in three conditions: (i) single word ("ball!"); (ii) same-language sentence ("Where's the ball?"); or (iii) mixed-language sentence ("Dónde está la ball?"). Children successfully identified words across conditions; however, the advantage linked to hearing words in sentences was present only in the same-language condition. This work hence suggests that language mixing plays an important role on bilingual children's ability to recognize spoken words.