Results 61 to 70 of about 209,784 (214)

BILINGUALISM AND THE MAINTENANCE OF THE MOTHER TONGUE IN MULTILINGUAL SINGAPORE [PDF]

, 2016
Two issues have been identified that act against the development of a strong bilingual and biliteracy proficiency among pupils in Singapore schools: 1. English is perceived as having a much higher status than the Mother Tongue (MT) and the language in ...
Bakar, Mukhlis Abu
core  

Comparing Narrative Microstructure between Bilingual Balochi-Persian and Monolingual Persian Preschoolers

Journal of Rehabilitation Sciences and Research, 2017
Background: To date, with rapid increase of bilingual children, more attention about different patterns of the bilingual children narratives is needed.
Maryam Arabpour, Mahbube Nakhshab, Najme Abdolrashidi, Mahtab Molaiefard, Shima Bakhtyari, Hossein Ansari   +5 more
doaj  

Comparison of plosive sounds in monolingual and bilingual children, using the voice onset time acoustic parameter: cases report

Revista CEFAC
The purpose was to compare differences in production of plosive phonemes through the voice onset time (VOT) measurement in the speech of monolingual children, speakers of Brazilian Portuguese and bilingual children, speakers of both Brazilian Portuguese ...
Maria Teresa R. Lofredo-Bonatto, Marta A. Andrada e Silva   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Age of second language acquisition affects nonverbal conflict processing in children : an fMRI study [PDF]

, 2014
Background: In their daily communication, bilinguals switch between two languages, a process that involves the selection of a target language and minimization of interference from a nontarget language. Previous studies have uncovered the neural structure
De Houwer A, Dijkstra A. F. J., Dijkstra T., Gollan T. H., Gollan T. H., Henson R., Henson R. N. A., Lezak M. D., Liu Y., McShane J, Paap K. R., Piaget J.   +11 more
core   +1 more source

Theory of mind in bilingual and monolingual preschool children [PDF]

, 2010
This research examined whether theory of mind (ToM) development differs in bilingual and monolingual preschool children. Three false belief tasks were given to 163 Kurdish-Persian bilingual and Persian monolingual preschool children.
Abdullah, Rohani, Farhadian, Mokhtar, Gazanizadand, Neda, Mansor, Mariani, Redzuan, Maarof, Vijay , Kumar Mallan   +5 more
core  

The acquisition of dative alternation by German-English bilingual and English monolingual children [PDF]

, 2015
The vulnerability of the syntax–semantics interface in simultaneous bilingual first language acquisition is still up for debate; while some scholars have found crosslinguistic transfer at this interface, others found no such influence. To determine which
Bowerman, Bresnan, Bruyn, Callies, Drenhaus, Gathercole, Gathercole, Genesee, Grosjean, Krifka, König, Larson, Levin, Liamkina, MacWhinney, Mills, Pinker, Schönenberger, Snyder, Thornton, Tsimpli, von Stutterheim, Yip, Zarqane   +23 more
core   +1 more source

Bilingual children [PDF]

Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health, 2021
openaire   +2 more sources

Neighbourhood Density in Spoken Word Recognition: An Eye-Tracking Study

Languages
Bilingual acquisition research has so far focused on comparisons with monolingual children in terms of linguistic features, performance on standardised tests, input, etc.
Christina Schelletter
doaj   +1 more source

Do Bilinguals Have an Advantage in Theory of Mind? A Meta-Analysis

Frontiers in Communication, 2018
Bilingualism might help children develop Theory of Mind, but the evidence is mixed. To address the disagreement in the literature, a meta-analysis was conducted on studies that compared bilingual and monolingual children on false belief and other Theory ...
Scott R. Schroeder
doaj   +1 more source

Macrostructure and microstructure in narratives of Spanish/English bilingual children with and without language impairment (LI) [PDF]

, 2018
There is limited research on character mention and noun phrase elaboration in the narratives of Spanish-English kindergarten and first graders. The current study was designed to determine whether typically developing (TD) Spanish- English bilingual ...
Stansbury, Amber Jean
core   +1 more source