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Publication Date: 2020
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Development of Cross-Language Lexical Influence: Divergence, Not Convergence
White, Anne; Malt, Barbara C.; Verheyen, Steven; Storms, Gert
International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, v23 n2 p241-243 2020
Storms, Ameel, and Malt [2015. "Development of Cross-language Lexical Influence." "International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism" 18: 529-547] compared the development of naming patterns in monolingual and bilingual children. They concluded that bilinguals' naming patterns in their two languages become increasingly similar with age and are thus converging. In this commentary, we argue that taking into account younger participants' smaller vocabulary and greater variability in names for individual objects changes the paper's conclusions: bilingual naming patterns are found to diverge with age.
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Monolingualism, Bilingualism, Naming, Transfer of Training, Age Differences, Native Language, Comparative Analysis, Vocabulary Skills, Pictorial Stimuli, French, Indo European Languages, Correlation
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