Vera F. Gutiérrez?Clellen|Gabriela Simón-Cereijido|Angela Erickson Leone
Code-switching in bilingual children with specific language impairment
San Diego State University|San Diego State University|University of California, San Diego
children specific language impairment sli exhibit limited grammatical skills compared peers typical language difficulties may revealed alternating two languages ie codeswitching within sentences fiftyeight spanishenglish speaking children without sli produced narratives using wordless picture books conversational samples results indicated significant differences proportion utterances codeswitching cs across age groups contexts elicitation significant effects language dominance language testing significant dominance language testing interaction englishdominant children demonstrated cs tested nondominant language spanish compared spanishdominant children tested weaker english children sli display cs instances atypical cs patterns compared typical peers findings indicate children sli capable using grammatical cs spite language difficulties addition analyses suggest cs sensitive sociolinguistic variables home language socially supported larger sociocultural context cases children may refrain switching home language even dominant language