Plurilingual Competence in a Child: Case Study
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| Year of publication | 2022 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | We present data from a study involving spontaneous speech collection by Müllerová (2022) focusing on a 4-year-old plurilingual child whose mother tongue is Hebrew and who has been acquiring Czech as a second language as well as other foreign languages such as English, Spanish and French. We analyse the data in terms of interlanguage relations and try to see if, to what extent and how the individual languages interact with each other. We pay attention to borrowings, interference, code-switching and agrammatisms and also try to explain matters that do not fall in the previously mentioned categories. By closely observing this particular child's family language policy we can gain an insight into what encourages successful acquisition and usage of multiple languages. |