Source: Multilingual Living
Prof. Jean-Marc Dewaele and his daughter Livia
By Clo
Originally published in Multilingual Living Magazine
In my constant quest of knowledge to better understand the different and complex facets of multilingualism, I stumbled across a very informational paper by Dr. Jean-Marc Dewaele, a Belgian Professor in Applied Linguistics and Multilingualism at Birkbeck College in London,UK.
A bilingual from birth himself (French and Dutch) and father of a trilingual girl, he wrote “Trilingual first Language Acquisition: Explosion of a Linguistic Miracle,”
with a very personal focus on his trilingual daughter, raised in Dutch
and French in an English-speaking environment, with a passive exposure
to Urdu in her first years of life. >>>>>>>>>>>>