synonyms in a bilingual child's lexicon

[Margaret Fleck]

Notice, by the way, that the two-dialect case is potentially morecomplicated than the bilingual one, because you can't cleanlyassociate each word with a particular adult or a particular surroundinglanguage context.   It's easy to for one adult to entrain the other into usingthe word from the "wrong" dialect.   E.g. if my husband starts aconversation with "biscuit," I'm likely to echo his choice of wordrather than necessarily switching to "cookie."   
Margaret

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