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Cavosi, Ricciarda; Taeschner, Traute – Rassegna Italiana di Linguistica Applicata, 1987
Addresses two questions: (1) When do children who are bilingual from birth become aware that they speak two languages? and (2) What are the factors that lead to this awareness? The subjects in the study described here were Italian/German bilingual children living in the Italian region of Alto Adige. (CFM)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes
Taeschner, Traute; And Others – Rassegna Italiana di Linguistica Applicata, 1978
The purpose of this study was to attempt to verify the theory of Taeschner and Volterra (1976) that bilingual children pass through three distinct phases while becoming perfectly bilingual. The 12 subjects were English-Italian bilingual children between the ages of 1.6 and 4.6. (CFM)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, English, Grammar
Taeschner, Traute – Rassegna Italiana di Linguistica Applicata, 1978
This study analyzes a corpus of 1500 sentences uttered by a child bilingual in Italian and German between the ages of 3.9 and 4.5. Only 89 sentences show instances of lexical interference. (CFM)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, Code Switching (Language), Discourse Analysis