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An increasing number of families live in environments requiring a bilingual education for their children. This book addresses the major issues of concern for parents about child bilingualism, separating the fact from the fiction.

Infants and very young children develop almost miraculously the ability of speech, without apparent effort, without even being taught - as opposed to the teenager or the adult struggling without, it seems, ever being able to reach the same level of proficiency as five-year olds in their first language. This useful textbook serves as a guide to different types of language acquisition: monolingual and bilingual first language development and child and adult second language acquisition. Unlike other books, it systematically compares first and second language acquisition, drawing on data from...

Infants and very young children develop almost miraculously the ability of speech, without apparent effort, without even being taught - as opposed to the teenager or the adult struggling without, it seems, ever being able to reach the same level of proficiency as five-year olds in their first language. This useful textbook serves as a guide to different types of language acquisition: monolingual and bilingual first language development and child and adult second language acquisition. Unlike other books, it systematically compares first and second language acquisition, drawing on data from...

Die Romanistischen Arbeitshefte, die seit 2004 von Georgia Veldre-Gerner und Volker Noll herausgegeben werden, begleiten seit vier Jahrzehnten Studierende der Romanistik. Ihrer Konzeption nach sind die RA das Ergebnis einer Reflexion uber den jeweils aktuellen Stand der Forschung mit anwendungsbezogener und studienorientierter Ausrichtung. Damit bieten sie ein solides Instrument zur Einarbeitung in unterschiedliche Gebiete der Romanischen Sprachwissenschaft und halten dazu an, das erworbene Wissen durch integrierte Ubungsaufgaben praktisch nutzbar zu machen.

Language acquisition is a human endeavor par excellence. As children, all human beings learn to understand and speak at least one language: their mother tongue. It is a process that seems to take place without any obvious effort. Second language learning, particularly among adults, causes more difficulty. The purpose of this series is to compile a collection of high-quality monographs on language acquisition. The series serves the needs of everyone who wants to know more about the problem of language acquisition in general and/or about language acquisition in specific contexts.

Die Romanistischen Arbeitshefte, die seit 2004 von Georgia Veldre-Gerner und Volker Noll herausgegeben werden, begleiten seit vier Jahrzehnten Studierende der Romanistik. Ihrer Konzeption nach sind die RA das Ergebnis einer Reflexion uber den jeweils aktuellen Stand der Forschung mit anwendungsbezogener und studienorientierter Ausrichtung. Damit bieten sie ein solides Instrument zur Einarbeitung in unterschiedliche Gebiete der Romanischen Sprachwissenschaft und halten dazu an, das erworbene Wissen durch integrierte Ubungsaufgaben praktisch nutzbar zu machen.

Historical linguistics commonly invokes the child as the principal agent of change. Using this as a starting point, the authors address diachronic language change against a background of insights gained from extensive research into mono- and bilingual language acquisition. The evidence shows that children are remarkably successful in reconstructing the grammars of their ambient languages so the authors reconsider a number of commonly held explanatory models of language change, including language contact and structural ambiguity in the input. Based on a variety of case studies, this innovative...