Lisa Giesselbach, Anna-Lena Scherger

• This study examines word-formation in German among 3- to 7-year-old bilingual children compared to length of exposure-matched monolingual peers. Using three tasks with 66 bilingual and 60 monolingual children, we found compound inversions in both groups, significantly more in bilinguals. These results suggest a developmental temporal delay behind monolinguals but no deviance in bilingual acquisition of compounding and highlight the need for further research on compounding in monolingual development.