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Cross-linguistic influence in bilingual development

Determinants and mechanisms

 | The University of Manchester
Published online: 25 February 2013
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https://doi.org/10.1075/lab.3.1.01ser
Since seminal work in the late ‘80s the general consensus in the literature is that children who are regularly exposed to two languages from birth or soon after can acquire them as largely independent systems. In recent years the focus has shifted from the issue of language differentiation to the degree of interaction between the two systems, and to the factors affecting such cross-linguistic influence. The aim of this paper is to provide an overview of current proposals about the determinants and the manifestation of language interaction in young simultaneous bilinguals.
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.The origins: The cross-linguistic influence hypothesis
  • 3.Structural overlap and language combination.
  • 4.Interfaces as a vulnerable domain
  • 5.Interface with semantics: Is it that different from the interface with discourse?
  • 6.Are interface and structural overlap necessary for cross-linguistic influence?
  • 7.The nature of cross-linguistic influence: Representations and processing
  • 8.Concluding remarks
  • Note
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