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Use of code-mixing by young hearing children of Deaf parents*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 July 2016

LAURA KANTO ,
MARJA-LEENA LAAKSO  and
KERTTU HUTTUNEN
LAURA KANTO*
Affiliation:
Faculty of Humanities, Logopedics, University of Oulu Southern Ostrobothnia Hospital District
MARJA-LEENA LAAKSO
Affiliation:
Department of Education, University of Jyväskylä
KERTTU HUTTUNEN
Affiliation:
PEDEGO Research Group, University of Oulu Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, Oulu University Hospital Logopedics, Abo Akademi University, Finland
*
Address for correspondence: Laura Kanto, Faculty of Humanities, Logopedics, University of Oulu, P.O. Box 1000, FI-90014 Oulun yliopisto, Finland[email protected]
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Abstract

In this study we followed the characteristics and use of code-mixing by eight KODAs – hearing children of Deaf parents – from the age of 12 to 36 months. The children's interaction was video-recorded twice a year during three different play sessions: with their Deaf parent, with the Deaf parent and a hearing adult, and with the hearing adult alone. Additionally, data were collected on the children's overall language development in both sign language and spoken language. Our results showed that the children preferred to produce code-blends – simultaneous production of semantically congruent signs and words – in a way that was in accordance with the morphosyntactic structure of both languages being acquired. A Deaf parent as the interlocutor increased the number of and affected the type of code-blended utterances. These findings suggest that code-mixing in young bimodal bilingual KODA children can be highly systematic and synchronised in nature and can indicate pragmatic development.

Keywords

KODAbimodal bilingualismcode-mixing
Type
Research Article
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Bilingualism: Language and Cognition , Volume 20 , Issue 5 , November 2017 , pp. 947 - 964
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Footnotes

Supplementary material can be found online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1366728916000560

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This work was supported in part by the Emil Aaltonen Foundation, the Southern Ostrobothnia Hospital District (grant number EVO198), and the Ministry of Education and Culture. We are especially grateful to all the families that participated in this study and committed themselves to the longitudinal data collection. We also thank the anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments and suggestions.

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