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By Peter Howell, John Van Borsel

This booklet examines how the varied varieties obvious in many of the world?s languages have an effect on speech improvement and the way this may result in fluency issues. Language in monolingual audio system of alternative languages is tested in addition to particular matters that could come up in audio system who converse or extra languages.

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It then would still need to be explained why such a difference could be found. It seems more intuitive to expect more disfluencies in ESLA children, at least in their new second language, than in BFLA children who usually (in 3/4 of the cases; see above) have had experience with speaking two languages from early on. In conclusion, in the assessment of possible disfluency disorders in young bilingual children under age 6, the length of time of exposure to each language and children’s levels of proficiency in each language are to be taken into account.

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