To what extent and in what specific ways ethnic background, particularly blingualism, relate to linguistic development is a matter of concern with respect to curriculum development and instruction. (Authors/MB)

Findings suggest that there may be social class differences in the rate at which children acquire a mastery of the syntactic rule system of the language. (Author)

It is possible to examine the development of English wh-questions in first and second language learners and to detect regularities in the order of emergence of certain linguistic structures. It is also possible to speculate whether the stages in language acquisition correspond to the transformational derivation in transformational grammar. The…