Code Mixing among Tamil – English Bilingual Children

Code-Mixing and Mixed Verbs in Cantonese-English Bilingual Children: Input and Innovation

In both child and adult Cantonese, code-mixing is used productively. We focus on the insertion of English verbs into Cantonese utterances. Data from nine simultaneous bilingual children in the Hong Kong Bilingual Child Language Corpus are analyzed. Case studies show that the children’s rates of mixing closely match the rate of mixing in the parental input, and that different input conditions in...

BiLingual Information Retrieval System for English and Tamil

This paper addresses the design and implementation of BiLingual Information Retrieval system on the domain, Festivals. A generic platform is built for BiLingual Information retrieval which can be extended to any foreign or Indian language working with the same efficiency. Search for the solution of the query is not done in a specific predefined set of standard languages but is chosen dynamicall...

Unraveling the English-Bengali Code-Mixing Phenomenon

Code-mixing is a prevalent phenomenon in modern day communication. Though several systems enjoy success in identifying a single language, identifying languages of words in code-mixed texts is a herculean task, more so in a social media context. This paper explores the English-Bengali code-mixing phenomenon and presents algorithms capable of identifying the language of every word to a reasonable...

Phonological patterns in Mandarin-English bilingual children.

Adele Miccio recognized the paucity of information on the phonological development of children from diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds, and emphasized the need to apply advances in bilingual phonological research toward an appropriate phonological measure for bilingual children. In the spirit of her pioneering work, the present study investigated both Mandarin and English phonological ...

Syntactic Interference in Chinese-English Bilingual Children