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Cross-linguistic influence in bilingual language acquisition: Determining onset and end

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Published/Copyright: August 18, 2016
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Abstract

In this paper we review current novel work across several languages and instances of bilingual acquisition (2L1 and child L2), whose focus is on the syntax and semantics of different linguistic phenomena with a range of naturalistic and experimental methodologies (e. g. grammaticality judgments, truth-value judgment task, semantics entailment experiments in on-line and off-line modalities and longitudinal data) to determine at which age one can say that the influence of one language over the other diminishes or disappears. Moreover, we discuss the central issue of what may trigger the end of the influence of one language over the other.

Acknowledgements

Last, but not least, I would like to thank Leo Wetzels and his associated editors for his kind invitation to put together this Special Issue. I also would like to thank all the contributors and reviewers who make possible this research endeavor for their valuable contribution and time that all took to read and provide comments on all papers in their different rounds. In no particular order, I would like to thank: Aurora Bel, Mihaela Pirvulescu, Maria Teresa Guasti, Ludovica Serratrice, Cristina Flores, Vincent Torrens, Ana Teresa Perez-Leroux and Elisabeth van der Linden. I am deeply appreciative of their professionalism and their commitment to ensuring the high degree of quality reflected in this edited volume.

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