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Peer reviewedPedersen, Karen Margrethe – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1987
Children from the German minority in Denmark were studied as part of a longitudinal sociolinguistic research project. Most spoke the Jutland (a Danish) dialect and picked up German as a second language when they started preschool, resulting in code-switching and interference in some cases, which appear to be manifestations of linguistic creativity…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Case Studies, Child Language, Code Switching (Language)
