Preface

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Preface vii
4. First words 1
5. The simultaneous acquisition of two first languages 11
6. The emergence of verbal morphology and the lead-lag pattern issue in bilingual acquisition 43
7. Early language differentiation in bilingual infants 71
8. Language differentiation in bilingual infants 95
9. Past tense verb forms, discourse context and input features in bilingual and monolingual acquisition of Basque and Spanish 107
10. Finding first words in the input 131
11. Managing linguistic boundaries in early trilingual development 149
12. Bilingual first language acquisition 201
13. Bilingual children’s repair strategies during dyadic communication 231
14. Last words 257
15. References 265
16. Index 285