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Publication details [#50014]

Meisel, Jürgen M. 2007. The weaker language in early child bilingualism: Acquiring a first language as a second language? Applied Psycholinguistics 28 (3) : 495–514.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingual acquisition | first language acquisition | language dominance | second language acquisition | weakening

Language as a subject

French | German

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This study does not support the weaker language hypothesis claim that weaker language resembles second language acquisition. The reported analysis involves early german-French bilinguals whose dominant language is German.