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Bouchard, Caroline; Trudeau, Natacha; Sutton, Ann; Boudreault, Marie-Claude; Deneault, Joane – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2009
The purpose of this article is to examine the language of girls and boys between 8 and 30 months of age, using the Quebec French version of The MacArthur Communicative Development Inventories. The findings from this parental report measure confirm those of earlier research, which showed the linguistic superiority of girls over boys at a young age.…
Descriptors: Females, French Canadians, Foreign Countries, French
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Tremblay, Annie – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2008
The objectives of this study are (a) to determine if native speakers of Canadian French at different English proficiencies can use primary stress for recognizing English words and (b) to specify how the second language (L2) learners' (surface-level) knowledge of L2 stress placement influences their use of primary stress in L2 word recognition. Two…
Descriptors: Suprasegmentals, French Canadians, Second Language Learning, English (Second Language)
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Tal, Naomi Frankel; Siegel, Linda S. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1996
Analyzed the reading performance of dyslexic, poor, and normally achieving readers on a test of pseudoword reading according to the type of error committed. Findings failed to support the existence of a critical phonological processing difference between IQ reading-discrepant and IQ reading-nondiscrepant disabled readers. (74 references)…
Descriptors: Consonants, Dyslexia, Elementary School Students, Error Analysis (Language)