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"Kremin LV" Authored Publications:
| Title | Authors | PubMed ID | |
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| 1 | Bilingual children s comprehension of code-switching at an uninformative adjective | Kremin LV; Jardak A; Lew-Williams C; Byers-Heinlein K; | 41821919 CONCORDIA |
| 2 | Code-switching in parents' everyday speech to bilingual infants | Kremin LV; Alves J; Orena AJ; Polka L; Byers-Heinlein K; | 34006344 PSYCHOLOGY |
| Title: | Code-switching in parents' everyday speech to bilingual infants | ||||
| Authors: | Kremin LV, Alves J, Orena AJ, Polka L, Byers-Heinlein K | ||||
| Link: | pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34006344/ | ||||
| DOI: | 10.1017/S0305000921000118 | ||||
| Publication: | Journal of child language | ||||
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| PMID: | 34006344 | Category: | Date Added: | 2021-05-19 | |
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PSYCHOLOGY
1 Department of Psychology, Concordia University, Canada. 2 Center For Research on Brain, Language and Music, Canada. 3 Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Canada. 4 School of Communication Sciences and Disorders, McGill University, Canada. |
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Code-switching is a common phenomenon in bilingual communities, but little is known about bilingual parents' code-switching when speaking to their infants. In a pre-registered study, we identified instances of code-switching in day-long at-home audio recordings of 21 French-English bilingual families in Montreal, Canada, who provided recordings when their infant was 10 and 18 months old. Overall, rates of infant-directed code-switching were low, averaging 7 times per hour (6 times per 1,000 words) at 10 months and increasing to 28 times per hour (18 times per 1,000 words) at 18 months. Parents code-switched more between sentences than within a sentence; this pattern was even more pronounced when infants were 18 months than when they were 10 months. The most common apparent reasons for code-switching were to bolster their infant's understanding and to teach vocabulary words. Combined, these results suggest that bilingual parents code-switch in ways that support successful bilingual language acquisition. |
