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Components of Executive Control with Advantages for Bilingual Children in Two Cultures
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Bialystok, Ellen; Viswanathan, Mythili – Cognition, 2009
The present study used a behavioral version of an anti-saccade task, called the "faces task", developed by [Bialystok, E., Craik, F. I. M., & Ryan, J. (2006). Executive control in a modified anti-saccade task: Effects of aging and bilingualism. "Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition," 32,…
Descriptors: Monolingualism, Foreign Countries, Experimental Psychology, Bilingualism
Development of Coronal Stop Perception: Bilingual Infants Keep Pace with Their Monolingual Peers
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Sundara, Megha; Polka, Linda; Molnar, Monika – Cognition, 2008
Previous studies indicate that the discrimination of native phonetic contrasts in infants exposed to two languages from birth follows a different developmental time course from that observed in monolingual infants. We compared infant discrimination of dental (French) and alveolar (English) place variants of /d/ in three groups differing in…
Descriptors: Infants, Monolingualism, French, Language Enrichment
Discrimination of Coronal Stops by Bilingual Adults: The Timing and Nature of Language Interaction
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Sundara, Megha; Polka, Linda – Cognition, 2008
The current study was designed to investigate the timing and nature of interaction between the two languages of bilinguals. For this purpose, we compared discrimination of Canadian French and Canadian English coronal stops by simultaneous bilingual, monolingual and advanced early L2 learners of French and English. French /d/ is phonetically…
Descriptors: Interaction, Monolingualism, French, English