Current Issues in Multilingual First Language Acquisition
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 24220643 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sharon Unsworth (0000-0002-0946-2362) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Pages | 21-50 |
| Publication date | 2013-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Annual Review of Applied Linguistics (BOOK_SERIES) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0267-1905 • E-ISSN: 1471-6356 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0267190513000044 |
| OpenAlex | W2130094602 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 25 |
| References cited | 129 |
Multilingual first language acquisition refers to the language development of children exposed to two or more languages from birth or shortly thereafter. Much of the research on this topic adopts a comparative approach. Bilinguals are thus compared with their monolingual peers, and trilinguals with both bilinguals and monolinguals; within children, comparisons are made between a child's two (or more) languages, and between different domains within those languages. The goal of such comparisons is to determine the extent to which language development proceeds along similar paths and/or at a similar rate across groups, languages, and domains, in order to elaborate upon the question of whether these different groups acquire language in the same way, and to evaluate how language development in multilingual settings is influenced by environmental factors. The answers to these questions have both theoretical and practical implications. The goal of this article is to discuss the results of some of this recent research on multilingual first language acquisition by reviewing (a) properties of the developing linguistic system in a variety of linguistic domains and (b) some of the characteristics of multilingual first language acquisition that have attracted attention over the past five years, including cross-linguistic influence, dominance, and input quantity/quality. Trilingual first language acquisition is covered in a dedicated section.
Bilingualism · language development in children · language domains · language dominance · Language transfer · monolingual comparison · trilingualism · Language Development and Disorders · Multilingual Education and Policy · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
Heritage languages
Contrasting Effects of Starting Age and Input on the Oral Performance of Foreign Language Learners
Emotional interaction mechanism of intelligent educational robots in assisting language acquisition
Language exposure and phonological short-term memory as predictors of majority language vocabulary and phonological awareness in dual language learning
‘Inert benevolence’ towards languages beyond English in the discourses of English primary school teachers
Developmental corpus insights into the writing life of a primary school child in Australia
Lexical and morphosyntactic variation in Persian heritage language outcomes
Early, late or very late
Effects of language impairment and bilingualism across domains
Cross-linguistic influence in word order
Acquisition of quantified partitivity in Catalan-Spanish bilingualism
Code-mixing and language dominance
Trilingual children’s narratives
Translingual practices and monoglot policy aspirations
Influential factors in lexical richness of young heritage speakers’ family language
The impact of a first-generation immigrant environment on the heritage language
Caretaker input and trilingual development of Mandarin, Cantonese and English in early childhood (1;6-2;11)
Multilingual toddlers’ vocabulary development in two languages
Character introductions in oral narratives of Swedish–German bilingual preschoolers
Acquiring an opaque gender system in Irish, an endangered indigenous language
Contradictory information in the input as the cause of Multiple Grammars
Word spelling in monolingual and bilingual children with developmental language disorder
Realization of English past tense by Chinese–English heritage bilingual children
French Postverbal Subjects
AAiMLL
The Acquisition of Two Languages from Birth
Constructing a Language
The Bilingual Child
Profile effects in early bilingual language and literacy
The home language environment of monolingual and bilingual children and their language proficiency
The development of a word-learning strategy
The language‐specific nature of grammatical development
Understanding child bilingual acquisition using parent and teacher reports
A precursor of language acquisition in young infants
Bilingual first-language development
Parental language mixing
Early differentiation of languages in bilingual children
The Effect of Maternal Language on Bilingual Children's Vocabulary and Emergent Literacy Development During Head Start and Kindergarten
Predicting Spanish–English Bilingual Children’s Language Abilities
Acquisition of English Grammatical Morphology by Native Mandarin-Speaking Children and Adolescents
The relation of input factors to lexical learning by bilingual infants
Parental language input patterns and children's bilingual use
Bilingual first language acquisition at the interface between syntax and pragmatics
The measure matters
Crosslinguistic influence and language dominance in older bilingual children
Properties of Dual Language Exposure That Influence 2-Year-Olds’ Bilingual Proficiency
Social factors in childhood bilingualism in the United States
Assessing the role of current and cumulative exposure in simultaneous bilingual acquisition
Crosslinguistic influence in bilingual language acquisition
Syntactic Acquisition in Bilingual Children
Early Trilingualism
The relationship between bilingual exposure and vocabulary development
Lexical Growth Patterns in a Bilingual Infant
Differential effects of internal and external factors on the development of vocabulary, tense morphology and morpho-syntax in successive bilingual children
Individual differences in child English second language acquisition
Language input environments and language development in bilingual acquisition
Towards a description of trilingual competence
On the interaction of phonological systems in child bilingual acquisition
Delay, interference and bilingual development
The linguistic competence of early Basque–Spanish bilingual children and a Spanish monolingual child
Object–verb and verb–object in Basque and Spanish monolinguals and bilinguals
The phonological development of a trilingual child
Effects of input on the early grammatical development of bilingual children
Vocabulary growth and composition in monolingual and bilingual Basque infants and toddlers
Gender acquisition in bilingual children
Individual Differences in the Lexical Development of French–English Bilingual Children
The Influence of Dominance and Sociolinguistic Context on Bilingual Preschoolers' Language Choice
Miami and North Wales, So Far and Yet So Near
What you hear and what you say
The psycholinguistics of bilingualism
Interaction in bilingual phonological acquisition
Beyond Bilingualism
Pragmatic differentiation in early trilingual development
Competing language structures
Language differentiation in early bilingual development
Learning to liaise and elide comme il faut
How vocabulary size in two languages relates to efficiency in spoken word recognition by young Spanish–English bilinguals
Dual language exposure and early bilingual development
Bilingual children's acquisition of the past tense
The acquisition and development of language by bilingual children
Bilingual signed and spoken language acquisition from birth
Translation Equivalents and the Emergence of Multiple Lexicons in Early Trilingual Development
The null-subject parameter at the interface between syntax and pragmatics
Overt subjects and copula omission in the Spanish and the English grammar of English–Spanish bilinguals
Dinner conversations with a trilingual two-year-old
Bilingual Language Acquisition
Knowledge and Learning in Natural Language
Knowledge and Learning in Natural Language
How social contexts support and shape language development☆
Language Experience Shapes the Development of the Mutual Exclusivity Bias
Evidence of Early Language Discrimination Abilities in Infants From Bilingual Environments
Ich brauche mix-cough
Phonological differentiation before age two in a Tagalog–Spanish–English trilingual child
Trilingual toddlers at daycare centres
The influence of child-directed speech in early trilingualism
Factors of success and failure in the acquisition of grammatical gender in Dutch
Second-Language Acquisition in Childhood
Simultaneous Bilingualism and the Perception of a Language-Specific Vowel Contrast in the First Year of Life
Markedness, input frequency, and the acquisition of inflection
Bilingual children's sensitivity to specificity and genericity
Pinning down the concept of "interface" in bilingualism
Internal and external interfaces in bilingual language development
Receptive vocabulary differences in monolingual and bilingual children
Modality, Infinitives, and Finite Bare Verbs in Dutch and English Child Language
Bilingual Children's Acquisition of English Verb Morphology
Le Carte Blanc or la Carte Blanche? Bilingual Children's Acquisition of French Adjective Agreement
Discourse conditions on subject pronoun realization
Cross-linguistic influence in bilingual children
Bilingual bootstrapping
Lexical Development in Bilingual Infants and Toddlers
Verbal behavior
| Unique citing works | 25 |
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| Citations per year | 2,08 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2026 (13) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 25 |