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[Marilyn Vihman]

>	I was talking to a parent today who was raising her child
>bilingually, between German & English.  She was commenting that the child
>(now just over 2) was creating blends (that is, combining words from the
>two languages).  So, the child's word for blanket was bekke, from blanket +
>dekke, and the child's word for brush was brushke or brushte (I'm not sure
>I heard the stop consonant correctly, and not knowing German I wasn't sure
>what follow-up questions to ask).   I hadn't heard of children combining
>words in this manner before, and was wondering whether others had heard of
>this.
>
I give a number of examples of such bilingual mergers in Vihman (1981),
JChild Language, 8, 239-264.

-marilyn v.




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