Introduction: On the Status of Cross-Linguistic Structures in Research on Young Children Growing Up With Two Languages Simultaneously / Susanne Dopke -- Language Mixing as a Challenge for Linguistics / Rosemarie Tracy -- Non-Selective Access and Activation in Child Bilingualism: The Lexicon / Elisabeth van der Linden -- Non-Selective Access and Activation in Child Bilingualism: The Syntax / Aafke Hulk -- The Interplay Between Language-Specific Development and Crosslinguistic Influence / Susanne Dopke -- Negation as a Crosslinguistic Structure in a German-English Bilingual Child / Christina Schelletter -- 'I Want A Chimney Builden': The Acquisition of Infinitival Constructions in Bilingual Children / Ira Gawlitzek-Maiwald -- The Search for Cross-Linguistic Influences in the Language of Young Latvian-English Bilinguals / Indra Sinka -- Beyond 'One System or Two?': Degrees of Separation Between the Languages of French-English Bilingual Children / Johanne Paradis -- Cross-Linguistic Structures in the Acquisition of Intonational Phonology by German-English Bilingual Children / Ulrike Gut -- Concluding Remarks: Language Contact -- A Dilemma for the Bilingual Child or for the Linguist? / Elizabeth Lanza
Summary
This text brings together a group of researchers with a shared interest in the simultaneous acquisition of two languages in early childhood. It looks for explanations for the various facets of bilingual development
