Are Function Words Non-Language Specific in Early Bilingual Two-Word Utterances?.

Deuchar, Margaret

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ERIC Number: EJ632747

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Publication Date: 1999

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Are Function Words Non-Language Specific in Early Bilingual Two-Word Utterances?

Deuchar, Margaret

Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, v2 n1 p23-34 Apr 1999

Investigates mixed early two-word utterances by bilinguals to determine whether function words match the language context less frequently than content words. Data collected from two language contexts from a child acquiring English and Spanish from birth were used to identify those two-word utterances occurring in the first 2 months of two-word utterances (ages 1.7-1.9 years). (Author/VWL)

Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, Cognitive Processes, English, Language Acquisition, Oral Language, Second Language Learning, Spanish, Toddlers

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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