Two First Languages: Early Grammatical Development in Bilingual Children

by Jürgen M. Meisel (Editor)

Language acquisition is a human endeavor par excellence. As children, all human beings learn to understand and speak at least one their mother tongue. It is a process that seems to take place without any obvious effort. Second language learning, particularly among adults, causes more difficulty. The purpose of this series is to compile a collection of high-quality monographs on language acquisition. The series serves the needs of everyone who wants to know more about the problem of language acquisition in general and/or about language acquisition in specific contexts.

317 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1990

About the author

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Jürgen M. Meisel is a Professor of French, Portuguese and Spanish at the University of Hamburg, Germany.

He has researched into first and second language acquisition, multilingualism, and grammatical theory. Meisel is also one of the four chief editors of Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, Cambridge University Press.