The extant literature includes conflicting assertions regarding the influence of bilingualism
on the rate of language development. The present study compared the language …

Multilingual first language acquisition refers to the language development of children
exposed to two or more languages from birth or shortly thereafter. Much of the research on …

Basic research on bilingual development suggests several conclusions that can inform
clinical practice with children from bilingual environments. They include the following:(1) …

One of the defining characteristics of bilingual language development is variability, in terms
of individual children's outcomes in their two (or more) languages and in terms of children's …

A striking feature of young bilingual children's language use is that there can be so much
difference between the ways in which they use either of their languages and the levels of …

An ongoing longitudinal study, 15 years old at the time of publication, is reported. It is a
sociolinguistic, developmental study of the acquisition of two languages, Spanish and …

By “metalinguistic development” I refer to both the development of children's awareness of
certain properties of language and their ability to analyze linguistic input, ie, to make the …

It is commonly thought that children learning two languages simultaneously during infancy
go through a stage when they cannot differentiate their two languages. Virtually all studies of …

Researchers/theoreticians, professionals and laypersons alike often view the simultaneous
acquisition of two languages during the pre-school years with reservation and outright …

Most of the research on children's language acquisition has been concerned with
monolinguals rather than bilinguals, despite the predominance of bilingualism in the world's …