Episode 2: The Cliffs Notes of Child Language Acquisition
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In episode 2 of Multilingual Mamas, we discuss monolingual and bilingual child language acquisition. Our very first guest, Dr. Tania Ionin, who is a Professor of Linguistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, specializes in adult and child language acquisition. She walks us through the different stages of child language acquisition and tells us about her personal experience raising her bilingual (Russian and English) daughters. [The audio of this episode is sometimes choppy, we apologize for the inconvenience]
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