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Paradis, Johanne; Jia, Ruiting – Developmental Science, 2017
Bilingual children experience more variation in their language environment than monolingual children and this impacts their rate of language development with respect to monolinguals. How long it takes for bilingual children learning English as a second language (L2) to display similar abilities to monolingual age-peers has been estimated to be 4-6…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, English (Second Language), Individual Differences, Monolingualism
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Marchman, Virginia A.; Martinez-Sussmann, Carmen; Dale, Philip S. – Developmental Science, 2004
The fact that early lexical and grammatical acquisition are strongly correlated has been cited as evidence against the view that the language faculty is composed of dissociable and autonomous modules (Bates & Goodman, 1997). However, previous studies have not yet eliminated the possibility that lexical-grammar associations may be attributable to…
Descriptors: Grammar, Language Skills, Bilingualism, Second Language Learning