Date of Award
2012
Document Type
Thesis
Publication Status
Version of Record
Submission Date
October 2026
Abstract
The current study addressed several questions about the use of language intermingling in child-directed speech and its influence on children's English and Spanish language acquisition on children's language code-switching, Participants were 65 children (Mean age=30.93 months, SD=0.44, 28 boys and 37 girls) who had been exposed to English and Spanish from birth and for whom at least one parent was a native Spanish speaker.... Measures of the children's lexical, grammatical, receptive, and productive language development in English and in Spanish were collected concurrently.... Consistent with sociolinguistic theories that propose that language separation is necessary for heritage language maintenance, children who were exposed to more language intermingling were more English-dominant. Both sensitivity to the language context and children's language dominance were related to children's production of mixed utterances. Children code-switched more when speaking in their less proficient language and when in the context of minority language use.
Extent
xvii, 115 p. : ill. (some col.)
Recommended Citation
Place, Silvia., "Language separation and intermingling in young children's bilingual environments and their effects on children's dual language development and use" (2012). Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2010 - 2019. 567.
https://digitalcommons.fau.edu/etd_general_6/567
Identifier
FADT3355870
Comments
by Silvia Place.|Thesis (Ph.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2012.|Includes bibliography.|Mode of access: World Wide Web.|System requirements: Adobe Reader.|by Silvia Place.