I am looking for studies about how child acquires a new dialect of the same language.
The literature on child language acquisition, including bilinguals, is very copious. We know that babies will learn to speak two-=-or maybe more--languages simultaneously, without having an accent or mixed syntax in either one. I was raised in a bilingual home. I also know two babies who learned Chinese and English simultaneously and two who learned French and English at once. One of my grandchildren learned both Russian and English as a baby and one learned Tagalog and English, and one learned Spanish and English. Their English is perfect as i their second language. They learned to speak two languages at the same time as children learning just one.
A good intro to this topic would be this paper. In his references you will find other sources.
Stanford, James. (2008). Child dialect acquisition: New perspectives on parent/peer influence. JOURNAL OF SOCIOLINGUISTICS 12(5):567 - 596 · OCTOBER 2008. DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9841.2008.00383.x
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Felipe
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