bilingual acquisition

collocation in English

meaningsofbilingualandacquisition

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bilingual
adjective
uk
/baɪˈlɪŋ.ɡwəl/
us
/baɪˈlɪŋ.ɡwəl/
able to use two languages ...
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acquisition
noun
uk
/ˌæk.wɪˈzɪʃ.ən/
us
/ˌæk.wəˈzɪʃ.ən/
the process of ...
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(Definition ofbilingualandacquisitionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofbilingual acquisition

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Bilingualacquisitionoccurs in different sociocultural contexts, and it entails different language combinations and modalities (signed and oral).
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Most current theories of language acquisition are based on monolingual children and are silent on the case ofbilingualacquisition.
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The extant evidence does not mean thatbilingualacquisitiondoes not challenge some children.
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Thebilingualacquisitioncontext can be seen as an experimental setting with monolingual acquisition contexts as its control.
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Mixing and pragmatic parental strategies in earlybilingualacquisition.
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Understanding childbilingualacquisitionusing parent and teacher reports.
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Bilingualacquisitionresearchers and practitioners are frequently challenged by the difficulty in establishing uniform criteria for proficiency in a language.
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Bilingualacquisitionof compound nouns of the semantic head noun determines the order of the child's compounds.
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What all these studies have in common is the belief thatbilingualacquisitionis basically similar to monolingual acquisition.
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Therefore, documentation of the facts ofbilingualacquisitionand the development of theories to explain these facts are worthy in their own right.
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It reflects a broad range of theoretical topics and state-of-the-art investigations of issues in the field ofbilingualacquisition.
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Reasons why paradoxical views ofbilingualacquisitionhave persisted are also offered.
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The answer to these questions implies a different view of thebilingualacquisitionprocess than that offered in the unitary language system hypothesis.
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This book presents the findings of a case study inbilingualacquisitionand explores their implications for theories of first and second language acquisition.
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Future studies of bilingual processing must attempt more systematically to relate sentence interpretation patterns to individuals'bilingualacquisitionvariables.
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However, placement errors are not systematically observed inbilingualacquisition.
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In turn, these assumptions yield powerful predictions about the course of earlybilingualacquisitionthat are testable.
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