Code-Switching During Narratives by Bilingual Children With and Without Developmental Language Disorder.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

This study examined the frequency, direction, and structural characteristics of code-switching (CS) during narratives by Spanish-English bilingual children with and without developmental language disorder (DLD) to determine whether children with DLD exhibit unique features in their CS that may inform clinical decision-making.

Method

Spanish-English bilingual children, aged 4;0-6;11 (years;months), with DLD (n = 33) and with typical language development (TLD; n = 33) participated in narrative retell and story generation tasks in Spanish and English. Instances of CS were classified as between utterance or within utterance; within-utterance CS was coded for type of grammatical structure. Children completed the morphosyntax subtests of the Bilingual English

SUBMITTER: Gross MC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10473391 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature