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4.3 Main issues

- Bilingual lexicon compared to monolingual lexicon:
-- Bialystok and Barac (2013): larger total lexicon, but smaller language-specific lexicons; more words, but less meanings
-- Still highly controversial; opinion not shared by everybody
-- Liu (2013):
--- 213 monolingual and bilingual children
--- Dutch and another language
--- Ages: 0;11-1;0, 1;2-1;3, 1;9-2;0
--- No difference in the Dutch productive and receptive vocabularies between bilinguals and monolinguals