Risk and protective environmental factors for early bilingual language acquisition

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Acknowledgements

We would like to thank our esteemed reviewers for painstakingly reading the original and revised manuscripts, making comments and sharing ideas. Special thanks go to Jean-Marc Dewaele, for giving us the opportunity to present this collection of papers as a special issue for the International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, and to guest edit the issue. We are also grateful to Jennifer Tunstall, the Journal administrator, for patiently answering our countless questions throughout the preparation of the issue.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

Notes on contributors

Dr Daniela Gatt is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Communication Therapy, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Malta. Her primary research interest lies in bilingual language acquisition. She is particularly interested in the lexical-semantic abilities of typically developing children and children with language impairment who receive exposure to more than one language.

Dr Ciara O'Toole is a Lecturer in Speech and Language Therapy in the Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences, University College Cork, Ireland. Her teaching and research interests are in the area of paediatric communication development and disorders. She has particular interest in bilingual language acquisition and children who are acquiring Irish as a first/second language.