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Publication details [#30533]
Petitto, Laura Ann, Siobhan Holowka and Françoise Brosseau-Lapré. 2002. Semantic and Conceptual Knowledge Underlying Bilingual Babies' First Signs and Words. Language Learning 52 (2) : 205–262. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
Blackwell Publishers
ISBN
0023-8333
Journal WWW
Annotation
This paper explores how babies, exposed to two languages simultaneously, acquire the meanings of words across their two languages and rejects prevailing attributions that young bilingual children are delayed and confused.