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4.2 Main issues

- Bilingual acquisition compared to monolingual acquisition:
-- No general qualitative differences in language development
-- (Possible) differences: lexicon, stuttering, language mixing, acquisition stages
-- What is the norm?
-- Monolinguality is normal, whereas bilinguality represents a deviation
-- Grosjean (1989)"The bilingual is not two monolinguals in one person."
-- Comparison with athletics: high hurdler blends the competences of high jumpers and sprinters