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One characterisation of bilingual development is the following: the two languages develop simultaneously and in the same way as for a monolingual child (De Houwer 1990, Leopold 1939-49, Meisel 1989). The bilingual children studied in this operation do not develop in this way. Instead, they show considerable differences in the development of their two languages. We address the following questions: how does the development of the weak language differ from the development of that language in monolingual children? Is development simply retarded or is it divergent?