Parental language mixing: Its measurement and the relation of mixed input to young bilingual children's vocabulary size

Bilingualism

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 32-48

  Byers Heinlein, Krista ^a  

^a Civil and Environmental Engineering   (Canada)

Author keywords

bilingualism; code switching; infant development; language development; parenting; vocabulary size

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870854336     PISSN: 13667289     EISSN: 14691841     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1366728912000120     Document Type: Article

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