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Lightbown, Patsy M. – 1977
Two English-speaking six-year-olds attending a French-speaking kindergarten in Montreal were tested for the content of their French L2 (second language) utterances. An adaptation of the mean length of utterance (MLU) index was used to judge the order of acquisition in the encoding of semantic-syntactic relations in the second language. The same…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, French, Kindergarten Children
Peer reviewedLightbown, Patsy M. – Language Learning, 1977
Describes a research project in which the acquisition of French by two six-year-old boys, native speakers of English, was observed longitudinally. (CFM)
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Bilingualism, Child Language, Children
