TY  - BOOK
AU  - Zofia Chłopek
PY  - 2017
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 2196-016X
SN  - 9783653062045
TI  - Early Bilingualism and Multilingualism
T2  - Parents’ and Caregivers’ Attitudes and Observations
DO  - 10.3726/978-3-653-06204-5
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1049690
N2  - The author investigates the development of children raised bilingually or multilingually. Parents and caregivers completed a questionnaire, providing information on 36 children growing up with two or more languages. Their responses indicate that bilingual and multilingual children usually develop as well as their monolingual peers, and sometimes even better. Some drawbacks of early bilingualism or multilingualism, such as a slight delay in the onset of speech production or asymmetrical language competences, are compensated for by several benefits of early acquisition of two or more mother tongues and early contacts with two or more cultures.
KW  - multilingual children, language development, cognitive development, bilingual children
LA  - English
ER  -