An Introduction to Bilingualism provides a comprehensive review of the most important
aspects of individual and societal bilingualism, examining both theoretcial and practical …

Children from bilingual backgrounds are sometimes overidentified with language
impairment (LI) because educators do not have appropriate developmental expectations. At …

Heritage speakers are native speakers of a minority language they learn at home, but due to
socio-political pressure from the majority language spoken in their community, their heritage …

1. Language learning at school 132 1.1 Monolingual children 132 1.2 Bilingual children 136
2. L1 attrition in minority-language speaking children 139 2.1 Inuktitut-speaking children in …

This book sets a high standard for rigor and scientific approach to the study of bilingualism
and provides new insights regarding the critical issues of theory and practice, including the …

This study investigates knowledge of gender agreement in Spanish L2 learners and
heritage speakers, who differ in age and context/mode of acquisition. On some current …

How do children develop bilingual competence? Do bilingual children develop language in
the same way as monolinguals? Set in the context of findings on language development …

REVIEWS849 between the syntactic position of an element and its semantic scope might
arise from different syntactic and semantic parses of the same elements rather than from …

This book is about the acquisition of Spanish in a monolingual and in a bilingual situation by
children during the years of primary linguistic development, and as a second/foreign …

This study investigates the grammatical representations of nearnatives with the aim of
providing an account of the selectiveness observed in the morphosyntactic properties that …