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We can no longer afford a monolingual norm

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2010

Barbara Zurer-Pearson
Barbara Zurer-Pearson*
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University of Massachusetts, Amherst
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In her Keynote Article, Johanne Paradis does a service for the research and the clinical communities with this comprehensive review of the literature encompassing bilingualism and specific language impairment (SLI). Her work and the work of her colleagues for more than a decade have been persistent in bringing these two threads together: using bilingual (BL) data to speak to theoretical issues and using research findings to inform clinical practice. I am not alone in my appreciation (and admiration) of her many contributions, which are nicely pulled together here and placed in better perspective than in the several articles that have presented much of the work in isolation.

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Applied Psycholinguistics , Volume 31 , Issue 2 , April 2010 , pp. 339 - 343
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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