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[Jarovinszkij Alekszandr]

Dear Rochelle,
See our papers:
Alexandr Jarovinskij, 1995. On bilingual socialization. In: Keith E. Nelson and
Zita Reger (eds.) Children's language, vol. 8. Hillsdale, New Jersey: Lawrence
Erlbaum Associates, Publishers, 23-40.
Alexandr Jarovinskij, 1997. The structure of the mental lexicon in
Hungarian-Russian bilingual children. Acta Linguistica Hungarica, vol. 44
(1-2), 203-223.
All the best
Sasha
Rochelle Newman wrote:

>         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.
>
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