What Bilingual Toddlers Hear and Say: Language Input and Word Combinations.

Patterson, Janet L.

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ERIC Number: EJ597269

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1999

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What Bilingual Toddlers Hear and Say: Language Input and Word Combinations.

Patterson, Janet L.

Communication Disorders Quarterly, v21 n1 p32-38 Fall 1999

A study involving 102 toddlers with exposure to Spanish and English found children whose parents said they used only one language with the child did not differ from children whose parents said they used both languages in reported use of word combinations and use of mixed utterances. (Author/CR)

Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Error Analysis (Language), Family Environment, Interference (Language), Language Acquisition, Language Patterns, Morphology (Languages), Parent Child Relationship, Second Language Learning, Spanish Speaking, Syntax, Toddlers

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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