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Peer reviewedDopke, Susanne – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1992
A study based on monthly recordings of one bilingual child exposed to English and German suggests that, contrary to earlier research, the acquisition of sociolinguistic rules appears to precede the acquisition of structural rules. The assumption that linguistic sophistication is necessary for children to understand that they are exposed to two…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, English, Foreign Countries
