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Structural and phonological cues for gender assignment in monolingual and bilingual children acquiring German. Experiments with real and nonce words

Glossa, 2022
We investigate the acquisition of grammatical gender marking in German by monolingual children as well as German-Russian bilingual children who grow up in Germany as heritage speakers of Russian.
Marit Westergaard, Miriam Geiss, Natalia Mitrofanova, Tanja Kupisch   +3 more
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How much exposure to English is necessary for a bilingual toddler to perform like a monolingual peer in language tests? [PDF]

, 2014
Background Bilingual children are under-referred due to an ostensible expectation that they lag behind their monolingual peers in their English acquisition.
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA), Baker, Bedore, Bedore, Bello, Bialystok, Bialystok, Bishop, Bornstein, Caesar, Camilleri, Caselli, Caselli, Conboy, Conti-Ramsden, Crutchley, Dale, De Houwer, Dittmar, Doblhammer, Dunn, Dunn, Ellis Weismer, Fenson, Gathercole, Gathercole, Gathercole, Grimm, Gutiérrez-Clellan, Hamilton, Hasson, Hasson, Hemsley, Hoff, Junker, Kapalková, Katzner, Kern, Kovacs, Kruger, Lyytinen, López Ornat, Marchman, Meints, Milligan, Nelson, Nicholls, O'Toole, Office for National Statistics (ONS), Pancsofar, Paradis, Paradis, Parra, Paul, Pearson, Pearson, Peña, Place, Poulin-Dubois, Punj, Restrepo, Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists (RCSLT), Scheele, Schwarz, Serrat, Squires, Steinley, Stow, Szagun, Tardif, Thordardottir, Thordardottir, Ward, Wiig, Williams, Zimmerman, Zink   +76 more
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Neuroanatomical profiles of bilingual children [PDF]

Developmental Science, 2018
AbstractThe goal of the present study was to examine differences in cortical thickness, cortical surface area, and subcortical volume between bilingual children who are highly proficient in two languages (i.e., English and Spanish) and bilingual children who are mainly proficient in one of the languages (i.e., Spanish).
Archila‐Suerte, Pilar, Woods, Elizabeth A, Chiarello, Christine, Hernandez, Arturo E   +3 more
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Cognitive Advantages of Bilingual Children in Different Sociolinguistic Contexts

Frontiers in Psychology, 2017
Many studies have shown that bilingual children outperform monolinguals on tasks testing executive functioning, but other studies have not revealed any effect of bilingualism.
Elma Blom, Tessel Boerma, Evelyn Bosma, Evelyn Bosma, Leonie Cornips, Leonie Cornips, Emma Everaert   +6 more
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Cognate facilitation effects in bilingual children of varying language dominance [PDF]

, 2018
A widely accepted theory is that bilinguals activate both of their languages regardless of which is in use. Though there is abundant research on this phenomenon in bilingual adults, less research has focused on bilingual children.
Ramirez, Mayra Chantal
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Error analysis of expressive analogy task in Spanish-English bilingual school age children with and without specific language impairment [PDF]

, 2015
textPurpose: The relational shift hypothesis (RSH) states that, as children age, the way in which they interpret analogies shifts from a focus on object similarities to relational aspects of objects.
Moreno, Beverly
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Early Numeracy and Literacy Skills Among Monolingual and Bilingual Kindergarten Children

Frontiers in Psychology, 2021
Early numeracy and literacy skills are all the knowledge that children acquire spontaneously and independently before entering school and beginning formal learning.
Liat Bar, Shelley Shaul
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Determinants of Bilingualism Among Children [PDF]

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2014
This paper analyzes the determinants of bilingualism (i.e., speaks a language other than English at home) among children age 5 to 18 years in the American Community Survey, 2005-2011. Two groups of children are considered: those born in the US (native born) and foreign-born children who immigrated prior to age 14 (the 1.5 generation).
Chiswick, Barry R., Gindelsky, Marina
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Crosslinguistic Influence (CLI) of Lexical Breadth and Depth in the Vocabulary of Bilingual Kindergarten Children – A Bilingual Intervention Study

Frontiers in Psychology, 2021
Introduction: Research in recent years has explored the vocabulary size (lexical breadth) of bilingual children, but less is known about the richness of bilingual word knowledge (lexical depth), and about how knowledge of words in the two languages ...
Minna Lipner, Sharon Armon-Lotem, Sharon Armon-Lotem, Joel Walters, Carmit Altman, Carmit Altman   +5 more
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The effects of bilingualism on speakers who stutter during late childhood [PDF]

, 2009
Objectives: To examine stuttering by children speaking an alternative language exclusively (LE) or with English (BIL) and to study onset of stuttering, school performance and recovery rate relative to monolingual speakers who stutter (MONO).
Davis, S., Howell, P., Williams, R. M.
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