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OverviewThis book addresses the issue of language contact in the context of child language acquisition. Lanza examines in detail the simultaneous acquisition of Norwegian and English by two first-born children in families living in Norway in which the mother is American and the father Norwegian. She connects psycholinguistic arguments with sociolinguistic evidence, adding a much-needed dimension of real language use in context to the psycholinguistic studies which have dominated the field. She draws upon evidence from other studies to support her claims concerning language dominance and the child's differentiation between the two languages in relation to the situation, interlocutor, and the communicative demands of the context. She also addresses the question of whether or not the language mixing of infant bilingualism is conceptually different from the codeswitching of older bilinguals, thus helping to bridge the gap between these two fields of study. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Elizabeth Lanza (Professor of Applied Linguistics, Professor of Applied Linguistics, University of Oslo)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Clarendon Press Dimensions: Width: 16.20cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 24.20cm Weight: 0.770kg ISBN: 9780198235750ISBN 10: 0198235755 Pages: 416 Publication Date: 13 March 1997 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsReviewsa 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. * Annick De Houwer, Anthropological Linguistics 41 no3, 1999 * 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. Annick De Houwer, Anthropological Linguistics 41 no3, 1999 Author InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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