Introduction to “Input and experience in bilingual development”

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. List of contributors vii
4. Introduction to “Input and experience in bilingual development” 1
5. Language exposure and online processing efficiency in bilingual development 15
6. The absolute frequency of maternal input to bilingual and monolingual children 37
7. Language input and language learning 59
8. Language exposure, ethnolinguistic identity and attitudes in the acquisition of Hebrew as a second language among bilingual preschool children from Russian- and English-speaking backgrounds 77
9. Interactions between input factors in bilingual language acquisition 99
10. Properties of dual language input that shape bilingual development and properties of environments that shape dual language input 119
11. The typical development of simultaneous bilinguals 141
12. French-English bilingual children’s sensitivity to child-level and language-level input factors in morphosyntactic acquisition 161
13. Comparing the role of input in bilingual acquisition across domains 181
14. Index 203