Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ632762
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1999
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"Where Is My Brush-Teeth?" Acquisition of Compound Nouns in a French-English Bilingual Child.
Nicoladis, Elena
Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, v2 n3 p245-56 Dec 1999
Examines whether bilingual children can differentiate their languages with respect to the ability to form compound nouns and to test the validity of previous explanations of the acquisition of compounds. Focused on whether a bilingual French-English child could differentiate between two compounding rules for nouns in the two languages. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, Cognitive Processes, English, French, Nouns, Second Language Learning, Toddlers
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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