Current research on multilingual acquisition is concerned with
whether children exposed to multiple languages from birth build
separate language systems from early on or a single system
comprised of elements of all languages. While several studies have
shown that developing bilinguals show signs of language
differentiation from the onset of speech, very little work has been
done on children learning more than two languages. This book
examines the emergence of three languages - Tagalog, Spanish, and
English - in a child raised in a trilingual environment and focuses
on the process of language differentiation from the perspective of
phonology, lexicon, word order, and language choice. These analyses
shed light on a child's ability to develop the various components
of three languages and suggest that multilingual exposure does not
slow down the process of language differentiation. The results of
this study and their implications will be of interest to those
working in linguistics, developmental psychology, and related
fields, interested in the processes and mechanisms involved in
multilingual children's language and cognitive development.
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