Journal
HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
Volume 53, Issue 5, Pages 245-255Publisher
KARGER
DOI: 10.1159/000321282
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Bilingual language acquisition; Monolingual language acquisition
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Studies of preverbal infants exposed to a bilingual environment have unveiled the existence of important similarities, but also significant differences in the way monolinguals-to-be and bilinguals-to-be solve the problem of language acquisition. In this paper, I review these studies and I argue that some apparent bilingual failures are the consequence of experimental designs conceived to test monolingual infants. When properly analyzed, these data provide evidence for successful solutions to learning 2 languages and to become a competent adult bilingual speaker. Copyright (C) 2010 S. Karger AG, Basel
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