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Peer Commentaries on Roeper's "Universal Bilingualism."
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Ayoun, Dalila; Haider, Hubert; Hawkins, Roger; Hulk, Aafke; Meechan, Marjory; O'Neil, Wayne; Yang, Charles D. – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 1999
Seven peer commentaries are included in response to an article on the notion that a narrow kind of bilingualism exists within every language and is present whenever two properties exist in a language that are not statable within a single grammar. This theoretical bilingualism is defined in terms of the minimalist theory of syntax presented by…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Cognitive Processes, Grammar, Language Universals
Crosslinguistic Influence in Bilingual Language Acquisition: Italian and French as Recipient Languages.
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Muller, Natascha; Hulk, Aafke – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2001
Compares the results from monolingual children with object omissions in bilingual children who have acquired two languages simultaneously. Claims that the difference between monolingual and bilingual children is due to crosslinguistic influences in bilingual children. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Cognitive Mapping, Cognitive Processes, French
"Comment expliquez-vous?" Null Objects in Adults and Children.
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Muller, Natascha; Hulk, Aafke – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2001
Responds to comments by various researchers on an early article presented in the same issue of this journal, claiming that language separation and crosslinguistic influence coexist in bilingual first language acquisition. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Cognitive Mapping, Cognitive Processes, French