Author(s): McMillan BTM; Baumgartner HA; Bergmann C; Frank MC; Hamlin JK; Kampis D; Kline Struhl M; Ko ES; Kosie JE; Lew-Williams C; Lucca K; Schuwerk T; Soderstrom M; Visser I; Yuen FL; Zettersten M; Byers-Heinlein K;

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Author(s): Fibla L; Kosie JE; Tsui RK; Potter CE; Lew-Williams C; Byers-Heinlein K;

Bilingual children learn their languages through rich interactions with caregivers within dynamic family contexts. However, little is known about how families align their two languages to support bilingual acquisition and how this varies across bilingual communities. This study examines language choice alignment across two communities: French-English fa ...

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Author(s): Tsui RK; Kosie JE; Fibla L; Lew-Williams C; Byers-Heinlein K;

Language switching is common in bilingual environments, including those of many bilingual children. Some bilingual children hear rapid switching that involves immediate translation of words (an 'immediate-translation' pattern), while others hear their languages most often in long blocks of a single language (a 'one-language-at-a-time' pa ...

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Author(s): Fibla L; Kosie JE; Kircher R; Lew-Williams C; Byers-Heinlein K;

Many infants and children around the world grow up exposed to two or more languages. Their success in learning each of their languages is a direct consequence of the quantity and quality of their everyday language experience, including at home, in daycare and preschools, and in the broader community context. Here, we discuss how research on early langua ...

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