Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Multicompetence in child bilingualism -- 3. Motion events in language and cognition -- 4. Motion events in first and bilingual language acquisition -- 5. Implications and general assumptions -- 6. Methodology -- 7. Study on language dominance patterns and motion encoding by Turkish-German and Turkish-French bilinguals -- 8. General discussion and future directions -- Appendix -- References -- Index