The role of a child's productive vocabulary in the language choice of a bilingual family

By Elena Nicoladis, Giovanni Secco. 2000

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Code-mixing in mother-child interaction in deaf families (2005, background): “The children in these deaf families are therefore exposed to a variable input, and, as research with hearing children has indicated, input determines the amount and type of code mixing that children produce ( Nicoladis & Secco 2000 ).”
Parental language mixing: Its measurement and the relation of mixed input to young bilingual children's vocabulary size* (2012, background): “In a case study of a bilingual family, 10% of the father’s utterances and 2% of the mother’s utterances were mixed (Nicoladis & Secco, 2000).”
The Influence of Dominance and Sociolinguistic Context on Bilingual Preschoolers' Language Choice (2007, background): “For this study, discourse context was interpreted as being the adult interlocutor’s language choice, which is in line with the assumptions of much prior work (e.g. Comeau et al ., 2003; Genesee et al ., 1995a; Lanza, 1997; Nicoladis & Secco, 2000).”