Bilingual parents code-switch, or mix their two languages, when speaking to their infant. Parental code-switching may influence infants’ language development. For example, code-switching slows language processing (Byers-Heinlein, Morin-Lessard, & …
Code-switching (e.g., “Are you hungry? *Est-ce que tu veux une apple?*”) is common in bilingual environments and may affect language acquisition. For example, code-switching has been shown to slow toddlers’ language processing, especially when it …
In an environment where people speak multiple languages, it is common for those languages to be mixed together in everyday speech. This phenomenon, called code-switching, is prevalent in bi- and multilingual settings. When and how does code switching …
In order to successfully acquire both of their languages, bilingual children must discriminate the two languages in their environment. Rhythmicity appears to be a linguistic cue that bilingual infants quickly adopt to differentiate their native …