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Beyond Exposure: Markers Of English Proficiency In School-Aged French–English Bilinguals, Erin Quirk
Beyond Exposure: Markers Of English Proficiency In School-Aged French–English Bilinguals, Erin Quirk
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Bilingual children show more variation in their language development than monolingual children, a fact that has been linked to their experience with their languages. Bilingual language experience also varies more than monolingual children's, both in terms of how much they hear the language spoken around them (exposure) and how much they speak the language themselves (production). This dissertation investigates the following aspects of the relationship between bilinguals’ language experience and development which are not well-understood: how children’s language production relates to their proficiency in that language, how children’s language exposure relates to receptive versus expressive and lexical versus grammatical skill, …