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Publication details [#50077]

Genesee, Fred. 2001. Bilingual first language acquisition: exploring the limits of the language faculty. Annual Review of Applied Linguistics 21 : 153–168.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingual acquisition | child language | code-mixing | first language acquisition | pragmatics

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This paper considers current research in three areas of child bilingual first language acquisition: grammatical constraints on and pragmatic characteristics of child bilingual code-mixing and child bilingual syntactic development. Current findings confirm the human mind's bilingual capacity.