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Commonalities, differences, and differences that matter between monolingual and bilingual development

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 February 2023

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Erika HOFF*
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Abstract

This commentary makes the argument that the child-internal and child-external sources of individual differences in bilingual development are much the same as the sources of individual differences in monolingual development. It makes the further argument that the operation of the child-external influences results in differences between monolingual and bilingual development in the rate and sometimes in the outcome of language acquisition. An argument is made for the scientific and practical value of understanding the differences between monolingual and bilingual development, and future directions for research are suggested.

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bilingual developmentindividual differencesbilingual profiles

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Invited Commentary
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Journal of Child Language , Volume 50 , Issue 4: Special Issue on Individual Differences in Bilinguals , July 2023 , pp. 818 - 822
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© The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press

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