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Nicoladis, Elena – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 1998
Examined how a bilingual child might come to an understanding of the existence of two languages in terms of pragmatic differentiation and lexical differentiation. Using data from a Portuguese-English bilingual child, showed that the child exhibited evidence of pragmatic differentiation before lexical differentiation. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Cognitive Processes, English, Linguistic Input
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Muller, Natascha – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 1998
Examines language transfer or interference from the perspective of the input the bilingual child is exposed to. Argues that transfer occurs in those domains of the grammar where the language learner is confronted with ambiguous input. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Bilingualism, Cognitive Processes, Grammar
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De Houwer, Annick; Grosjean, Francois; Hulk, Aafke; van der Linden, Elisabeth; Lanza, Elizabeth; Schlyter, Suzanne; Tracy, Rosemarie; Treffers-Daller, Jeanine – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 1998
Eight commentaries are included on an article that examined language transfer or interference from the perspective of the input the bilingual child is exposed to and argued that transfer occurs in those domains of the grammar where the language learner is confronted with ambiguous input. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Bilingualism, Cognitive Processes, Grammar
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Muller, Natascha – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 1998
Responds to commentaries written about an article that the author wrote on language transfer and interference from the perspective of the input the bilingual child is exposed to. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Ambiguity, Bilingualism, Cognitive Processes, Grammar