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Kahn-Horwitz, Janina; Schwartz, Mila; Share, David – Journal of Research in Reading, 2011
The "script-dependence hypothesis" was tested through the examination of the impact of Russian and Hebrew literacy on English orthographic knowledge needed for spelling and decoding among fifth graders. We compared the performance of three groups: Russian-Hebrew-speaking emerging triliterates, Russian-Hebrew-speaking emerging biliterates who were…
Descriptors: Semitic Languages, Russian, English, Literacy
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Marian, Viorica; Kaushanskaya, Margarita – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2007
Cross-linguistic borrowing (overt use of words from the other language) and transfer (use of semantic or syntactic structures from the other language without active switching to that language) were examined during language production in Russian-English bilinguals. Grammatical category (noun/verb) and level of concreteness were found to influence…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Linguistic Borrowing, Semantics, Verbs