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Raising children bilingually

open access: yesHealth Psychology Report, 2015
The purpose of this article is to describe the process of becoming bilingual by sharing my own experience being raised in a four-language environment and how it influenced the upbringing of my daughter in two, and subsequently three languages. The other purpose is to dispel the myth that children with language, developmental and/or intellectual ...
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On Some Peculiarities of Bilingual Children’s Speech Development

open access: yesArmenian Folia Anglistika, 2011
The article examines the stages and characteristics of speech development among bilingual children. Such phenomena as late speech and mixture of languages can be observed in the process of the speech development of bilingual children.
Naira Avakyan
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Bilingual and monolingual children attend to different cues when learning new words

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2012
The way in which children learn language can vary depending on their language environment. Previous work suggests that bilingual children may be more sensitive to pragmatic cues from a speaker when learning new words than monolingual children are. On the
Eliana eColunga   +2 more
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PREDICTING LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY IN BILINGUAL CHILDREN [PDF]

open access: yesStudies in Second Language Acquisition, 2018
AbstractUsing advanced quantitative methods, this article demonstrates that cumulative exposure to the school language is the best language experience predictor of proficiency in that language (as indexed by sentence repetition, lexical semantic, and discourse semantic tasks) in a highly diverse group of 5- to 7-year-old bilingual children in ...
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Linguistic and cognitive skills in Sardinian-Italian bilingual children

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2015
We report the results of a study which tested receptive Italian grammatical competence and general cognitive abilities in bilingual Italian-Sardinian children and age-matched monolingual Italian children attending the first and second year of primary ...
Maria eGarraffa   +2 more
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How different are monolingual and bilingual acquisition? How different are monolingual and bilingual acquisition?

open access: yesIlha do Desterro, 2008
This paper compares monolingual acquisition to the acquisition of two languages from infancy. Basis for the comparison is the acquisition literature.
Annick De Houwer
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Accent versus impairment in bilingual children : assessing bilingual children in English

open access: yes, 2010
Standard Speech Language Pathology (SLP) practice mandates accent not interfere with the assessment of bilingual children (Crago & Westernoff, 1997). However, in practice SLPs only have access to assessments that do not account for accent, potentially resulting in an over-referral of bilingual children.
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Comparing Narrative Microstructures between Bilingual BalochiPersian Preschoolers and Monolingual Persian Preschoolers

open access: yesJournal of Rehabilitation Sciences and Research, 2017
Background: With the rapid increase of bilingual children, more attention is needed on different patterns of their narratives. The aim of this study was to compare levels of narrative microstructures generated by typical developing kindergarten ...
Maryam Arabpour Dahouie   +5 more
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Clitic Production in Bilingual Children: When Exposure Matters

open access: yesLanguages, 2018
The aim of this work is to investigate how bilingual children perform with respect to monolingual children in a task eliciting direct object clitic pronouns in Italian.
Maria Vender   +2 more
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Language Proficiency and Sustained Attention in Monolingual and Bilingual Children with and without Language Impairment

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2017
Background: The language profiles of children with language impairment (LI) and bilingual children can show partial, and possibly temporary, overlap. The current study examined the persistence of this overlap over time.
Tessel Boerma   +3 more
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