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Peer reviewedRoeper, Thomas – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 1999
Suggests 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 Chomsky (1995). (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Cognitive Processes, Grammar, Language Universals
Peer reviewedRoeper, Thomas – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 1999
Responds to peer comments on an article the author wrote on theoretical bilingualism--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. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Cognitive Processes, Grammar, Language Universals
Peer reviewedde Villiers, Jill; Roeper, Thomas – Language Acquisition, 1995
Evidence is presented from an experimental study with 21 children ages 4 to 5 years suggesting the coincident emergence of certain Determiner Phrases (DPs) as barriers to wh-movement and as separate binding domains. It is argued that the default assumption for children's grammar may be to assume NP is the maximal projection for a structure until a…
Descriptors: Determiners (Languages), Grammar, Language Acquisition, Language Research
Peer reviewedAllen, Stanley; Deuchar, Margaret; Dopke, Susanne; Kato, Mary Aizawa; Koppe, Regina; Paradis, Johanne; Roeper, Thomas; Schlyter, Suzanne; Tracy, Rosemarie; White, Lydia – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2001
Comments are provided by ten authors in response to an article on language separation and crosslinguistic influence in bilingual first language acquisition. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Cognitive Mapping, Cognitive Processes, French
