Recent years have seen a surge in research comparing bilinguals to monolinguals, yet
synthesizing this literature is complicated by the diversity of language and social …

The number of children living in the United States who are learning two languages is
increasing greatly. However, relatively little research has been conducted on the language …

In the first decade of life, children become bilingual in different language learning
environments. Many children start learning two languages from birth (Bilingual First …

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

In two experiments, we examined inhibitory control processes in three groups of bilinguals
and trilinguals that differed in nonnative language proficiency and language learning …

Recent findings suggest some properties of input in dual-language environments that
influence its value for bilingual development, but the extant data base is small and …

With contributions from leading scholars of bilingualism, Language Dominance in Bilinguals
is the first publication to survey different approaches to language dominance, along with …

Many children grow up in bilingual families and acquire two first languages. Emerging
research is advancing the view that the capacity to acquire language can be applied equally …

Two studies investigated five-and six-year-old preschool children's narrative production in
an attempt to show how LI may impinge on narrative production in measurable ways. Study …

Evidence-based practice requires that clinical decisions be based on evidence from
rigorously controlled research studies. At this time, very few studies have directly examined …