A Spanish-English bilingual child frequently uses 'vamos a go' instead of 'let's go'. Which mechanism explains why this phenomenon occurs in early language development?

💡 Explanation

Cross-linguistic transfer explains the mixing of syntactic structures because the child applies the Spanish verb-first construction ('vamos a') to the English phrase, resulting in 'vamos a go'. Therefore, syntactic structure transfer is responsible, rather than isolated vocabulary mixing or phonological constraints.

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