Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Part 1: Background -- Chapter 1: Assessing the Effects of Bilingualism: A Background -- Chapter: 2 An Integrated Approach to Evaluating Effects of Bilingualism in Miami School Children: The Study Design -- Part 2: Overall Results on Language Use and Standardized Test Performance -- Chapter 3: Bilingualism and Cultural Assimilation in Miami Hispanic Children -- Chapter: 4 Effects of Bilingualism and Bilingual Education on Oral and Written English Skills: A Multifactor Study of Standardized Test Outcomes -- Chapter 5: Effects of Bilingualism and Bilingual Education on Oral and Written Spanish Skills: A Multifactor Study of Standardized Test Outcomes -- Chapter 6: Interdependence of Spanish and English Knowledge in Language and Literacy Among Bilingual Children -- Part 3: Probe Studies on Complex Language Capabilities -- Chapter 7: Narrative Competence among Monolingual and Bilingual School Children in Miami -- Chapter 8: Command of the Mass/Count Distinction in Bilingual and Monolingual Children: An English Morphosyntactic Distinction -- Chapter 9: Grammatical Gender in Bilingual and Monolingual Children: A Spanish Morphosyntactic Distinction -- Chapter 10: Monolingual and Bilingual Acquisition: Learning Different Treatments of that-trace Phenomena in English and Spanish -- Chapter 11: The Ability of Bilingual and Monolingual Children to Perform Phonological Translation -- Part 4: A Retrospective View of the Research -- Chapter 12: Balancing Interpretations Regarding Effects of Bilingualism: Empirical Outcomes and Theoretical Possibilities -- References -- Index