In five experiments, we examined cross-language activation during speech production in
various groups of bilinguals and trilinguals who differed in nonnative language proficiency …

The study of bilingualism has often focused on two contradictory possibilities: that the
learning of two languages may produce deficits of performance in each language by …

Research on the development of speech processing in bilingual children has typically
implemented a cross-sectional design and relied on behavioral measures. The present …

Studies exploring fundamental issues in child language acquisition now number in the
thousands, and the majority of these focus on aspects of linguistic competence that develop …

The extent to which the two independent grammatical systems of a bilingual child may
actually interact has been the focus of much investigation since the late 1990s after more …

This chapter outlines a holistic framework for approaching the study of language input to
children under age 6 acquiring oral languages in bilingual settings. After a brief historical …

The majority of bilingual speech research has focused on simultaneous bilinguals. Yet, in
immigrant communities, children are often initially exposed to their family language (L1) …

This volume covers state-of-the-art research in the field of crosslinguistic approaches to the
psychology of language. The forty chapters cover a wide range of topics that represent the …

In research on language development by bilingual children, the early language environment
is commonly characterized in terms of the relative amount of exposure a child gets to each …

This chapter discusses morphosyntactic development in bilingual children under age 6
years. The primary focus is on the relationship between children's two languages in …