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Scheele, Anna F.; Leseman, Paul P. M.; Mayo, Aziza Y. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2010
This study investigated the relationships between home language learning activities and vocabulary in a sample of monolingual native Dutch (n = 58) and bilingual immigrant Moroccan-Dutch (n = 46) and Turkish-Dutch (n = 55) 3-year-olds, speaking Tarifit-Berber, a nonscripted language, and Turkish as their first language (L1), respectively. Despite…
Descriptors: Monolingualism, Vocabulary Skills, Language Proficiency, Indo European Languages
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Goggin, Judith P.; And Others – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1994
Name agreement in Spanish and English in response to 264 pictures was assessed in monolinguals and bilinguals, who varied in rated skill in the 2 languages. Name agreement decreased as language skill decreased, and agreement was lower when labels were given in Spanish rather than in English. Word frequency and word length were found to be related…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Comparative Analysis, English, Foreign Countries
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Merriman, William E.; Kutlesic, Vesna – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1993
In this study, 36 Serbian/English bilinguals and 42 English monolinguals (aged 5-8 years) received a successive name training assessment of 2heuristics: criterial use of highlighted features and preservation of mutual exclusivity. Results support the view that monolingual and bilingual acquisition fosters the development of different word learning…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Comparative Analysis, Heuristics, Language Proficiency