The Cross-Linguistic Study of Bilingual Development

Abstract

Part 1 Early bilingual development: retrospective on the study of early bilingualism, B. McLaughlin the separate development hypothesis - method and implications, A. de Houwer early bilingual development of Turkish children in the Netherlands, H. van der Heijden and L. Verhoeven early bilingual development of Turkish children in Berlin, C. Pfaff bilingual development of English preschool children in Turkey, O. Ekmekci two languages, three varieties - code-switching patterns of bilingual children, A. Bentahila and E. Davies the development of initial reading in a bilingual child, K. Wodala. Part 2 Bilingual development at school age and beyond: proficiency, choice and attitudes in bilingual Mexican-American children, K. Hakuta and L. Pease-Alvarez Turkish and Moroccan children in the Netherlands - acquisition of complex syntax in a first and second language, J. Aarssen et al bilingual development of school-age children in Sweden, A. Viberg first language text cohesion in a Turkish-Dutch bilingual setting, A. Schaufeli temporal reference and narrative structure in Italian and German by Italian migrant children in Germany, A. di Luzio second language influence on first language acquisition - Turkish children in Germany, H. Boeschoten first language influence on second language acquisition - Turkish and Moroccan adults in the Netherlands, P. Broeder et al.