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ERIC Number: EJ1358337
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2023-Jan
Pages: 23
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0305-0009
EISSN: EISSN-1469-7602
Internal and External Factors Contributing to Variability in Consonant Accuracy of Arabic-French Simultaneous Bilingual Children
Meziane, Rabia Sabah; MacLeod, Andrea A. N.
Journal of Child Language, v50 n1 p132-154 Jan 2023
This study aims to describe the relationships between child-internal and child-external factors and the consonant accuracy of bilingual children. More specifically, the study looks at internal factors: expressive and receptive vocabulary, and external factors: language exposure and language status, of a group of 4-year-old bilingual Arabic-French children. We measured the consonant accuracy of the children by the percentage of correct consonants in a Picture-Naming Task and a Non-Word Repetition Task in each language. The results suggest a significant relationship between vocabulary and consonant accuracy. A cross-language correlation was observed between the expressive vocabulary level of the majority language (French) and the consonant accuracy of the minority language (Arabic). Also, a significant correlation was found between Arabic language exposure and Arabic consonant accuracy. Finally, consonant accuracy was significantly higher in French tasks than in Arabic, despite the individual differences of the children.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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