Incomplete Acquisition in Bilingualism: Re-examining the Age Factor
@inproceedings{Montrul2008IncompleteAI, title={Incomplete Acquisition in Bilingualism: Re-examining the Age Factor}, author={Silvina A. Montrul}, year={2008} }
Age effects have played a particularly prominent role in some theoretical perspectives on second language acquisition. This book takes an entirely new perspective on this issue by re-examining these theories in light of the existence of apparently similar non-native outcomes in adult heritage speakers who, unlike adult second language learners, acquired two or more languages in childhood. Despite having been exposed to their family language early in life, many of these speakers never fully…
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