ance to linguistic rules" in children's mixing.
Studies indicate that when bilingual children initially start differentiating between the two languages, they are extremely sensitive to their interlocutors (Genesee 1989). Specifically, they tend to fixedly use the language they associate the speaker with despite the speaker's willingness or attempt to use the alternative language.
It is more than clear that bilingual children mix their two languages during development. The issue, then, becomes why this mixing occurs. This language mixing has been assumed to occur early in development because of a "un
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