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Instructive bilingualism: Can bilingual children with specific language impairment rely on one language in learning a second one?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2010

Sharon Armon-Lotem
Sharon Armon-Lotem*
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Bar-Ilan University
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Only a decade ago, a very few researchers considered the study of language disorders in bilingual population worth pursuing. It was mostly argued that there were enough challenges in studying bilingualism, and even more challenges in the study of specific language impairment (SLI). So why complicate things and combine the two domains?

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Applied Psycholinguistics , Volume 31 , Issue 2 , April 2010 , pp. 253 - 260
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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