bilingual children: comprehension and production

[Elena Lieven]

I am interested in what these children's accent was like in the language 
that 'suddenly switched on'.  Do they need to have produced it to sound 
initially like a native speaker?  One child I know also refused to speak 
English, though she was spoken to exclusively in English by her father 
who was the main carer from 1;0 - 3;0. But the family lives in Germany, 
the mother spoke German to the child, the child went to German daycare 
and both parents are almost native speakers in both languages.  She 
understood English perfectly but only started to be willing to speak it 
around the age of 5 or 6 - and she had, and to some extent still has, a 
German accent in English

elena lieven

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