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Siegal, Michael; Iozzi, Laura; Surian, Luca – Cognition, 2009
The purpose of the two experiments reported here was to investigate whether bilingualism confers an advantage on children's conversational understanding. A total of 163 children aged 3-6 years were given a Conversational Violations Test to determine their ability to identify responses to questions as violations of Gricean maxims of conversation…
Descriptors: Language Dominance, Monolingualism, Slavic Languages, Bilingualism
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Kousta, Stavroula-Thaleia; Vinson, David P.; Vigliocco, Gabriella – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2008
The authors investigated linguistic relativity effects by examining the semantic effects of grammatical gender (present in Italian but absent in English) in fluent bilingual speakers as compared with monolingual speakers. In an error-induction experiment, they used responses by monolingual speakers to establish a baseline for bilingual speakers…
Descriptors: Semantics, Grammar, Linguistics, Monolingualism