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Bilingual Language Acquisition

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How do children develop bilingual competence? Do bilingual children develop language in the same way as monolinguals? Set in the context of findings on language development, this book examines the acquisition of English and Spanish by two brothers in the first six years of their lives. Based on in-depth and meticulous analyses of naturalistic data, it explores how the systems of both languages affect each other as the children develop, and how different levels of exposure to each language influence the nature of acquisition. The author demonstrates that the children's grammars and lexicons follow a developmental path similar to that of monolinguals, but that cross-linguistic interactions affecting lexical, semantic and discourse-pragmatic aspects arise in Spanish when exposure to it diminishes around the age of four. The first of its kind, this original study is a must-read for students and researchers in bilingualism, child development, language acquisition and language contact.

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ISBN: 9781107024267
Publication date: 6th February 2014
Author: Carmen University of Southern California SilvaCorvalán
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Hardback
Pagination: 436 pages
Series: Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact
Genres: Language acquisition
Bilingualism and multilingualism