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Peer reviewedNicoladis, 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
