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Hermans, Daan; Ormel, E.; van Besselaar, Ria; van Hell, Janet – Language and Cognitive Processes, 2011
Is the bilingual language production system a dynamic system that can operate in different language activation states? Three experiments investigated to what extent cross-language phonological co-activation effects in language production are sensitive to the composition of the stimulus list. L1 Dutch-L2 English bilinguals decided whether or not a…
Descriptors: Speech, Phonemes, Bilingual Education, Indo European Languages
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Macleod, Andrea A. N.; Stoel-Gammon, Carol – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2009
The goal of this study was to examine the extent to which bilingual speakers maintain language-specific phonological contrasts for homorganic stops when a cue is shared across both languages. To this end, voice onset time (VOT) was investigated in three groups of participants: early bilinguals speakers of Canadian French and Canadian English (n =…
Descriptors: Monolingualism, French, Bilingualism, Phonology
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Schmidt, Gwen L.; Roberts, Timothy P. L. – Second Language Research, 2009
In this review we show how magnetoencephalography (MEG) is a constructive tool for language research and review MEG findings in second language (L2) research. MEG is the magnetic analog of electroencephalography (EEG), and its primary advantage over other cross-sectional (e.g. magnetic resonance imaging, or positron emission tomography) functional…
Descriptors: Language Research, Diagnostic Tests, Second Language Learning, Neurology
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Wang, Min; Yang, Chen; Cheng, Chenxi – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2009
This study investigated the concurrent contributions of phonology, orthography, and morphology to biliteracy acquisition in 78 Grade 1 Chinese-English bilingual children. Conceptually comparable measures in English and Chinese tapping phonological, orthographic, and morphological awareness were administered. Word reading skill in English and…
Descriptors: Phonology, Morphology (Languages), Reading Skills, Grade 1
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Duran, Lillian K.; Roseth, Cary J.; Hoffman, Patricia – Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 2010
A longitudinal, experimental-control design was used to test the hypothesis that native language instruction enhances English language learner's (ELL's) native language and literacy development without significant cost to English development. In this study, 31 Spanish-speaking preschoolers (aged 38-48 months) were randomly assigned to two Head…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Language of Instruction, Disadvantaged Youth, Emergent Literacy
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Girbau, Dolors; Schwartz, Richard G. – Journal of Communication Disorders, 2008
We examined the performance of sequential bilingual children with and without Specific Language Impairment (SLI), who had Spanish as an L1 and English as their L2, on an auditory non-word repetition task using Spanish phonotactic patterns. We also analyzed the accuracy with which this task distinguished these children (according to children's and…
Descriptors: Syllables, Phonemes, Mothers, Language Impairments
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Bialystok, Ellen; Luk, Gigi; Kwan, Ernest – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2005
Four groups of children in first grade were compared on early literacy tasks. Children in three of the groups were bilingual, each group representing a different combination of language and writing system, and children in the fourth group were monolingual speakers of English. All the bilingual children used both languages daily and were learning…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Written Language, Phonemes, Reading Skills