Concepts of Language in a Finnish-English Bilingual Preschooler / Michael Pickering.

A case study investigated the emergence of language and language concepts in a bilingual child, a girl aged 16 months to 6 years, 7 months. Observations were made by the child's parents and relatives in the child's home where the mother spoke Finnish and the father English. The report summarizes dev...

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Main Author: Pickering, Michael
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1992.
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Physical Description:51 pages
Format: Microfilm Book

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