International Journal of Bilingualism articles from September 2002

International Journal of Bilingualism archives from September 2002

On the interaction of phonological systems in child bilingual acquisition. (Special Issue).
September 1, 2002... Foreword Most of the research on acquisition of two first languages has concentrated on syntax, where it has been shown that the two languages of the bilingual child are separate entities from very early on, possibly at the two-word stage....

Getting started without a system: from phonetics to phonology in bilingual development. (Main Articles).
September 1, 2002... Abstract The common formulation which proposes that bilingual children enter into language production with either a single or a dual phonological system is questioned. Instead, it is suggested that implicit learning allows the child to...

The early phonological development of a Farsi-English bilingual child. (Main Articles).
September 1, 2002... Abstract This article addresses the issue of whether bilingual children begin phonological acquisition with one phonological system or two. Five hypotheses are suggested for the possible structure of the bilingual child's phonological...

Phonetic evidence for early language differentiation: research issues and some preliminary data. (Main Articles).
September 1, 2002... Abstract Although evidence is now available from several domains of language acquisition research that bilingual (BFLA) children differentiate their languages from the time of their earliest productions, studies in the phonetics-phonology...

The role of markedness in the acquisition of complex prosodic structures by German-Spanish bilinguals *. (Main Articles).
September 1, 2002... Abstract A tendency to limit prosodic words (PW) to the size of a metrical foot has often been acknowledged in early stages of acquisition and truncation has been shown to accomplish this size constraint. Interestingly, after the one-foot...

Developing vowel systems as a window to bilingual phonology *. (Main Articles).
September 1, 2002... Abstract This study examines the vowel systems of German-Spanish bilingual children in order to determine whether there is interaction between the two language systems. German has a larger vowel inventory than Spanish and also contains an...

/l/ production in English-Arabic bilingual speakers *. (Main Articles).
September 1, 2002... Abstract This paper reports an analysis of /l/ production by English-Arabic bilingual children. It addresses the question of whether the bilingual develops one phonological system or two by calling for a refinement of the notion of a...