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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Bilingual language acquisition"”.
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Bilingual first language acquisition: the nature of the weak language and the role of the input
… thesis investigates the development of the weak language in early bilingual language acquisition and its results are based on longitudinal and experimental data from 4 Italian-English bilingual children and their parents. The purpose of this thesis is twofold: firstly, to present a new method to …
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Stop production in Spanish-English bilingual children
… d, g]) are relatively early sounds in children’s acquisition and have specific features that can be measured and compared crosslinguistically. Spanish voiceless stops have shorter voice onset time values than English voiceless stops, and Spanish voiced stops vary allophonically to approximants, a …
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Brain Structure and Age of Acquisition in Bilinguals and Monolinguals
Researchers debate whether the age of second language acquisition (AoA) plays any role in determining brain structure. Whereas some studies suggest that bilinguals handle both languages via a single set of cognitive control regions regardless of AoA, others suggest that each language depends on …
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"I can speak German - und Deutsch" : the development and use of code-switching among simultaneous and successive English-German bilingual children
… dissertation is a case-study on English-German bilingual children. It analyses the development and use of code-switching among simultaneous and successive bilingual pre-school children. <br>The first part provides the theoretical background: basic concepts about bilingualism and bilingual …
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Developmental patterns of Spanish grammatical morphemes and mean length of utterance in bilingual children
… development in Spanish for Spanish-English bilingual children ages 4;0-7;6. This study uses secondary data analysis based on two existing datasets. Participants included 334 Spanish-English bilingual children that were recruited from school districts in Texas, Utah, and Pennsylvania. …
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Comprehension of Spanish relative and passive clauses by early bilinguals and second language learners
… and relative clauses, by early English-Spanish bilinguals, also known as heritage language (HL) learners, and by second language (L2) learners. To contribute to current theoretical debates on the role of input and age in L2 and bilingual language acquisition, and to current pedagogical inquires …