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The interest of this work is to find out how children develop different levels of language proficiency, depending on the linguistic environment they are raised in. In our study, twenty-one subjects of one monolingual German and one bilingual German/English kindergarten are tested on comprehension and production tasks on the passive voice. It is assumed that children who are already instructed in a foreign language in kindergarten, perform better on passive voice tasks in their mother tongue than their peers.

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Lisa Rauter graduated from Leopold Franzens University of Innsbruck in 2010. Her paper "Acquisition of Grammar in Children" was completed as part of her thesis and published later that year.

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