It is with renewed appreciation for the size of the task that I come to writing the present
chapter. The number of special issues of journals dedicated to im/politeness these days …

" Bilingualism in Development explores language and cognitive development in bilingual
children, focusing on the preschool years. It begins by defining what we mean by …

Describes patterns of general communication development and of English specificity,
emphasizing individual patterns. This edition devotes more attention to individual …

Increasingly, children grow up hearing two languages from birth. This comprehensive
textbook explains how children learn to understand and speak those languages. It brings …

Unlike many recent books on L2 vocabulary and processing, this volume does not set out to
offer a complex perspective of the L2 lexicon, but rather represents a sustained attempt to …

Монография посвящена изучению комплекса проблем, возникающих при
формировании детского билингвизма в семье, когда два языка усваиваются ребенком …

Divergent hypotheses exist concerning the types of knowledge underlying early
bilingualism, with some portraying a troubled course marred by language delays and …

Although evidence is now available from several domains of language acquisition research
that bilingual (BFLA) children differentiate their languages from the time of their earliest …

This chapter deals with the development of child bilingualism, more specifically with children
growing up with two or more languages from birth or soon afterwards. This focus on …

Elena Nicoladis, University of Alberta This chapter focuses on the simultaneous acquisition
of two languages from birth, or what is generally referred to as bilingual first language …