Language Mixing in Infant Bilingualism A Sociolinguistic Perspective [Paperback]

This book examines the simultaneous acquisition of Norwegian and English by two first-born children each with one American and one Norwegian parent. Lanza investigates the issue of language mixing in relation to language dominance and the children's differentiation between the two languages in relation to the communicative demands of the context. This new paperback edition contains an extensive updated bibliography.

1. Introduction
2. Language Mixing: Some Psycholinguistic, Neurolinguistic, and Sociolinguistic Issues
3. A Study in Infant Bilingualism
4. Language Mixing by the Young Bilingual Child: Some Formal Aspects
5. Language Choice by the Young Bilingual Child: Form and Function in Discourse
6. Language Mixing and Language Input: Parental Discourse Strategies
7. Conclusion
Appendices
References

Language Mixing and Infant Bilingualism,which is, incidentally, very well edited, continues to make a useful and important contribution to the field, because of its balanced framing of the issues, the clarity of its exposition, its varied analyses, and its validation of the sociolinguistic approach. --Linguist List 16.1591

A timely contribution to the field of bilingual acquisition research....offers a rare but much needed social-interactional and context-based perspective on early bilingual development....the main strength of Lanza's approach....lies in the highly detailed and insightful analyses of the dynamics of parent-child interactions and their effect on children's language choice....Lanza has done the field of bilingual acquisition research a great favor by drawing attention to the more sociolinguistic, interactional aspects of early bilingual development.... future research into bilingual acquisition can now no longer ignore the importance of the sociolinguistic dimension of learning to speak more than one language from infancy. --Anthropological Linguistics

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