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Thomason, Sarah G. – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2011
Jurgen Meisel argues that "grammatical variation...can be described...in terms of parametric variation", and--crucially for his arguments in this paper--that "parameter settings do not change across the lifespan". To this extent he adopts the standard generative view, but he then departs from what he calls "the literature on historical…
Descriptors: Sociocultural Patterns, Diachronic Linguistics, Morphology (Languages), Syntax
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Haworth, Penny; Cullen, Joy; Simmons, Heather; Schimanski, Liz; McGarva, Pam; Woodhead, Eileen – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2006
This paper takes a sociocultural approach to exploring the factors that enhance young children's bilingual development. The language excerpts presented were gathered as part of a three-year Early Childhood Centre of Innovation project funded by the New Zealand government. Data gathered in this project challenge Krashen's (1981) position that young…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Linguistic Input, Young Children, Language Acquisition