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Bilingual children reach early language milestones at the same age as monolingual peers

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Bilingual children reach early language milestones at the same age as monolingual peers. / Muszyńska, Karolina; Krajewski, Grzegorz; Dynak, Agnieszka et al.
In: Journal of Child Language, 15.01.2025, p. 1-24.

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Muszyńska, K, Krajewski, G, Dynak, A, Garmann, NG, Romøren, ASH, Łuniewska, M, Alcock, K, Katsos, N, Kołak, J, Simonsen, HG, Hansen, P, Krysztofiak, M, Sobota, K & Haman, E 2025, 'Bilingual children reach early language milestones at the same age as monolingual peers', Journal of Child Language, pp. 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000924000655

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Muszyńska, K., Krajewski, G., Dynak, A., Garmann, N. G., Romøren, A. S. H., Łuniewska, M., Alcock, K., Katsos, N., Kołak, J., Simonsen, H. G., Hansen, P., Krysztofiak, M., Sobota, K., & Haman, E. (2025). Bilingual children reach early language milestones at the same age as monolingual peers. Journal of Child Language, 1-24. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000924000655

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Muszyńska K, Krajewski G, Dynak A, Garmann NG, Romøren ASH, Łuniewska M et al. Bilingual children reach early language milestones at the same age as monolingual peers. Journal of Child Language. 2025 Jan 15;1-24. Epub 2025 Jan 15. doi: 10.1017/S0305000924000655

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Muszyńska, Karolina ; Krajewski, Grzegorz ; Dynak, Agnieszka et al. / Bilingual children reach early language milestones at the same age as monolingual peers. In: Journal of Child Language. 2025 ; pp. 1-24.

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abstract = "In this longitudinal study, we compare the age of reaching early developmental milestones in bilingual and monolingual children and between the bilinguals' two languages. We present data from 302 Polish bilinguals (living outside of Poland with various majority languages) and 302 Polish monolinguals, aged = 12.78 months on study entry (range: 0 24 months), matched on sex, age at study entry, duration of parental reporting, and parental education. The milestones under investigation include crawling, walking, babbling, first, 10th, 50th word, and first multi-word utterances. The data was collected with a specially designed mobile app, in which parents reported their children's development repeatedly. Using this relatively big sample and looking at a wide range of investigated milestones, we present evidence that typical bilingual development follows a trajectory similar to monolingual development. We also evaluate the feasibility and usefulness of online data collection using mobile apps to study early language development.",
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RIS

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AU - Łuniewska, Magdalena

AU - Alcock, Katie

AU - Katsos, Napoleon

AU - Kołak, Joanna

AU - Simonsen, Hanne Gram

AU - Hansen, Pernille

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AU - Sobota, Krzysztof

AU - Haman, Ewa

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