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Negation on bilingual acquisition: Translingual influences on English and Spanish simultaneous acquisition

Language acquisition; simultaneous bilingualism; negation, cross-linguistic influence.

The present work aims to verify the cross-linguistic influence in the acquisition of bilingual English and Spanish. The type of bilingualism studied here is simultaneous bilingualism, in which children acquire two languages from early childhood, and one of these languages is only used within the family. We seek to understand whether there is an influence of one language on the other regarding the process of acquisition of negation. To this end, we present a work on conceptualizations of billinguism and we also talk about bilingual acquisition and language acquisition from a generative perspective. In addition, through data collected on the CHILDES platform, we created  a hypotheses about the process of acquiring negation in simultaneous bilinguals. As an essential theoretical contribution to the research  we mention Hamers and Blanc (2000), Chomsky.