Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcodeRabe, MoniqueRabe, Monique2021-08-062021-08-062021https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12185/541To describe the code-switching in the speech of pre-school, bilingual Afrikaans-Dutch children, novel language data of eight preschool children between the ages of 2;3, and 6;4 who are raised bilingually in Afrikaans and Dutch in South Africa were collected and analysed. The parent-report method was employed to collect the data, and the data collection period lasted a total of approximately two months. The NWU HSSEC ethics number for the research is: NWU-02043-20-S7XLSThe speech data was collected over a period of two months.TextAfrikaansbilingual first language acquisitionDutchclosely-related languagesconstruction grammarnon-cognatesnon-identical cognatesfalse friends59 KB