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hbsimmons88

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When a child learns a second language and concurrently loses fluency in his or her native language, it is called subtractive bilingualism.
 
  Indicate whether the statement is true or false.

Question 2

MacWhinney's unified model is characterized by
 
  a. possible crosslinguistic transfer
  b. primary dependence of L2 comprehension on a general linguistic system
  c. the interaction hypothesis
  d. the interdependence hypothesis



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Answer to Question 1

TRUE

Answer to Question 2

a





 

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