Lara J. Pierce

List of John Benjamins publications for which Lara J. Pierce plays a role.

Articles

It is well known that the most active period for brain development and acquisition of native language phonology occurs within the first year of life. For children who continue to speak their native language, early phonological representations may create the framework for the acquisition of more… read more
Pierce, Lara J. and Fred Genesee 2014 Language input and language learning: An interactional perspectiveInput and Experience in Bilingual Development, Grüter, Theres and Johanne Paradis (eds.), pp. 59–76 | Article
In this chapter we discuss how input during joint attention (JA) interactions between parents and children may vary in ways pertinent to language development in simultaneous bilinguals. In particular we discuss mother-father differences, exceptionally relevant in bilingual families where one parent… read more