When a child who is bilingual is developing speech production skills faster than his/ her monolingual peers, this is called negative transfer.

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This statement is false. Research has shown that bilingual children may have an advantage in some aspects of language development, such as phonetic discrimination and executive function, but this is not considered negative transfer. Negative transfer, also known as interference or language transfer, is when the knowledge or rules of one language are mistakenly applied to another language and can result in errors.

When a Child Who Is Bilingual Is Developing Speech Production