Danny is Navajo. He learned the Navajo language when he was very young from his grandmother. When he started school he had to learn English and his ability to speak Navajo had declined by third grade. This is an example of
A) subtractive bilingualism.
B) additive bilingualism.
C) code switching.
D) syntactical bootstrapping.
A) subtractive bilingualism. In subtractive bilingualism, a person loses fluency in the first language as a result of acquiring a second language.
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