Dinner conversations with a trilingual two-year-old: Language socialization in a multilingual context

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Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 5-33

  Quay, Suzanne ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Family conversations; Language mixing; Language mode; Parental language modeling; Pragmatic development; Trilingualism

Indexed keywords

EID: 51249135212     PISSN: 01427237     EISSN: 17402344     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0142723707083557     Document Type: Article

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