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BILINGUALISM-LANGUAGE AND COGNITION
Volume 23, Issue 1, Pages 56-71Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S1366728919000348
Keywords
language acquisition; bilingual infants; bilingual phonological development; bilingual lexical development; simultaneous bilingualism
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- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) [317633480 - SFB 1287]
- EU [641858]
- Labex EFL [ANR-10LABX-0083]
- [ANR-15-CE28-0011]
- Marie Curie Actions (MSCA) [641858] Funding Source: Marie Curie Actions (MSCA)
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Many human infants grow up learning more than one language simultaneously but only recently has research started to study early language acquisition in this population more systematically. The paper gives an overview on findings on early language acquisition in bilingual infants during the first two years of life and compares these findings to current knowledge on early language acquisition in monolingual infants. Given the state of the research, the overview focuses on research on phonological and early lexical development in the first two years of life. We will show that the developmental trajectory of early language acquisition in these areas is very similar in mono- and bilingual infants suggesting that these early steps into language are guided by mechanisms that are rather robust against the differences in the conditions of language exposure that mono- and bilingual infants typically experience.
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