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McCarthy, Kathleen M.; Skoruppa, Katrin – Child Development, 2023
This study investigated the influence of first language (L1) phonology on second language (L2) early reading skills in Sylheti-English bilinguals (N = 58; 48% girls; British Bangladeshi) and their monolingual-English peers (N = 43; 45% girls; 96% White British, 4% multiethnic British) in a diaspora context. Language-specific phonological awareness…
Descriptors: Phonology, Bilingualism, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Fennell, Christopher T.; Byers-Heinlein, Krista; Werker, Janet F. – Child Development, 2007
Despite the prevalence of bilingualism, language acquisition research has focused on monolingual infants. Monolinguals cannot learn minimally different words (e.g., "bih" and "dih") in a laboratory task until 17 months of age ( J. F. Werker, C. T. Fennell, K. M. Corcoran, & C. L. Stager, 2002). This study was extended to 14- to 20-month-old…
Descriptors: Infants, Monolingualism, Language Acquisition, Bilingualism