Brain adaptations and neurological indices of processing in adult second language acquisition: challenges for the critical period hypothesis

V DeLuca, D Miller, C Pliatsikas… - The handbook of the …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
balanced, early bi/multilingualism outcomes when two languages are acquired at the same
time from the time of birth (or very early… L2 acquisition if indeed the underlying mechanisms

Longitudinal Examination of Potential Bilingual Advantage Effects for Selective Attention and Cognitive Functioning in Young Children

LM Troesch, JC Weiner-Bühler… - … Learning and Development, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
… who acquire a second language (L2) in parallel to their first … s age nor for the degree of
language balance of the examined … due to more specified language learning mechanisms. Hence…

The specificity principle in young dual language learners' English development

H Sun, MH Bornstein, G Esposito - Child Development, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
… ; therefore, input environments are not balanced for the majority of children. Borrowing from
… to understanding fundamental mechanisms underlying early child language acquisition, as …

Benefits of foreign language learning and bilingualism: An analysis of published empirical research 2005–2011

R Fox, O Corretjer, K Webb, J Tian - Foreign Language Annals, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
… to be more balanced bilinguals displayed a higher level of … mechanisms used by highly
proficient bilinguals do not depend on linguistic similarity between two languages or on the age

Different sources of delay and acceleration in early child bilingualism

N Müller - Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft, 2017 - degruyter.com
… effects observed in bilingual first language acquisition, delay … the literature on second
language acquisition. Negative transfer … in a more articulated manner in the balanced bilinguals. …

Bilingualism as a resource for foreign language learning of language minority students? Empirical evidence from a longitudinal study during primary and secondary …

JT Maluch, M Neumann, S Kempert - Learning and Individual Differences, 2016 - Elsevier
… , which language minority students with more balanced profiles potentially possess. In contrast,
later … mechanisms of bilingualism – functions that seem to be there in elementary school. …

Bilingual acquisition as the locus of syntactic change

JM Meisel - Probus, 2024 - degruyter.com
… Only second language acquisition exhibits such effects. L2 … principles and mechanisms of
language acquisition. Considering … from the language in monolinguals or balanced bilinguals. …

Bilingualism as a first language: language dominance and crosslinguistic influence

RF Fuertes, JM Liceras - Language Acquisition and Contact in the …, 2018 - degruyter.com
… While the mechanisms and processes that shape bilingualacquisition of a second language
occurs past three years of … that balance and dominance tests are dependent upon language

Variability and stability in early language acquisition: Comparing monolingual and bilingual infants' speech perception and word recognition

B Höhle, R Bijeljac-Babic, T Nazzi - Bilingualism: Language and …, 2020 - cambridge.org
… robust but probably basic mechanisms. Another follow-up … affected by balance/dominance)
to early language acquisition, … language spoken at home, while the second language is the …

The roles of age, attitude, and use in first language development and attrition of Turkish–English bilinguals

MS Schmid, T Karayayla - Language Learning, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
… , regardless of the age at which a second language (L2) is … in childhood, the language
balance often shifts toward the … of linguistic structures and mechanisms, covering lexical access, …