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Study finds that mother’s language choice has twice the impact on bilingual families

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain New research shows mothers have twice as much influence on language contact, calling into question traditional parenting advice. Parents who want to raise bilingual children have long been given advice to “follow a strict one parent, one language approach.” But a recent Concordia University study published in the journal Child Development found that bilingual Montreal families…