Input and Experience in Bilingual Development.

Amount of exposure has been observed to affect the linguistic development of bilingual children in a variety of domains. As yet, however, relatively few studies have compared the acquisition across domains within the same group of children. Such a comparative approach is arguably essential to gain a...

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Author / Creator: Grüter, Theres.
Other Authors / Creators:Paradis, Johanne.
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Imprint: Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2014.
Series:Trends in Language Acquisition Research
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Local Note:Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2022. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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Table of Contents:
  • -1. Prelim pages
  • 0. Table of contents
  • 1. List of contributors
  • 2. Introduction to "Input and experience in bilingual development"
  • 3. Language exposure and online processing efficiency in bilingual development
  • 4. The\absolute frequency of maternal input to bilingual and monolingual children
  • 5. Language input and language learning
  • 6. Language exposure, ethnolinguistic identity and attitudes in the acquisition of Hebrew as a second language among bilingual preschool children from Russian- and English-speaking backgrounds
  • 7. Interactions between input factors in bilingual language acquisition
  • 8. Properties of dual language input that shape bilingual development and properties of environments that shape dual language input
  • 9. The\typical development of simultaneous bilinguals
  • 10. French-English bilingual children's sensitivity to child-level and language-level input factors in morphosyntactic acquisition
  • 11. Comparing the role of input in bilingual acquisition across domains
  • 12. Index