Unravelling the input: the effect of language exposure on the lexical development of Turkish-Dutch bilinguals and monolingual Dutch children

Unravelling the input: the effect of language exposure on the lexical development of Turkish-Dutch bilinguals and monolingual Dutch children In this paper, we examine the early lexical development in Dutch of Turkish-Dutch successive bilinguals in an immigrant context and compare it to the lexical development of monolingual Dutch children. Early childhood bilingualism appears in different forms in relation to the age of onset or amount of language exposure (De Houwer, 2007). Research findings have shown that bilingual children’s language proficiency develops in line with the amount of exposure... Mehr ...