ABSTRACT
There are people (monolinguals themselves, usually) who advise parents against raising their children bilingually. They argue that the child may become confused, or his intelligence affected in some way, or his speech impaired (by stuttering), and above all they warn of the danger that he may end up not speaking any language ‘properly’. And they believe this last possibility can easily be proved by pointing to ‘irregularities’ present in the bilingual child’s speech (or, for that matter, that of bilingual adults).
