While bilingual children's code-mixing was once taken as a sign that they had confused their
languages, many studies have now shown that bilingual children can differentiate their …

This thesis examined several possible explanations for young bilingual children's code-
mixing: the unitary language system (ULS) hypothesis, parental rates of code-mixing …

Lexical gaps in vocabulary development have been acknowledged as a reason for
language mixing in young bilingual children. In spite of this, most studies do not take into …

Research investigating early childhood bilingualism suggests two opposing theories
explaining how the child learns to separate the two languages; a one-system theory in which …

Bilingual code-mixing is the use of elements (phonological, lexical, and morpho-syntactic)
from two languages in the same utterance or stretch of conversation or in different situations …

Is parental language mixing related to vocabulary acquisition in bilingual infants and
children? Bilingual parents (who spoke English and another language; n= 181) completed …

Various explanations for young bilingual children's codemixing have been offered, including
that it is influenced by the particular discourse strategies parents use in conversation with …

This study examined single-word code-mixing produced by bilingual preschoolers in order
to better understand lexical choice patterns in each language. Analysis included item-level …

Recent work has established that young developing bilinguals begin to use their two
languages appropriately at a young age, generally before the age of two. However, as we …

Relations between bilingual children's patterns of conversational code-switching
(responding to one language with another), the balance of their dual language input, and …