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1 - Describing Bilinguals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 May 2021

François Grosjean
François Grosjean
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Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland
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The posts here will help set the stage for many of those that follow in later chapters. In Post 1.1, it is shown how language proficiency has ceded its place to language use when defining bilingualism. Bilinguals are now seen as those who use two or more languages (or dialects) in everyday life.

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Life as a Bilingual
Knowing and Using Two or More Languages
 , pp. 5 - 26
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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Grosjean, F. (2010). Bilingual: Life and Reality. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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Grosjean, F. (2010). The bilingual as a competent but specific speaker-hearer. In Cruz-Ferreira, M., ed., Multilingual Norms. Frankfurt am Main, Germany: Peter Lang, pp. 19–31. This chapter originally appeared as an article in the Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development in 1985.Google Scholar

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Grosjean, F. (2010). Describing bilinguals. Chapter 2 of Bilingual: Life and Reality. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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Grosjean, F. (2016). The Complementarity Principle and its impact on processing, acquisition, and dominance. In Silva-Corvalán, C. and Treffers-Daller, J., eds., Language Dominance in Bilinguals: Issues of Measurement and Operationalization. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 66–84.Google Scholar

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  • Describing Bilinguals
  • François Grosjean, Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland
  • Book: Life as a Bilingual
  • Online publication: 14 May 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108975490.002
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  • Describing Bilinguals
  • François Grosjean, Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland
  • Book: Life as a Bilingual
  • Online publication: 14 May 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108975490.002
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  • Describing Bilinguals
  • François Grosjean, Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland
  • Book: Life as a Bilingual
  • Online publication: 14 May 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108975490.002
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