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Peer reviewedPearson, Barbara Zurer; Fernandez, Sylvia C. – Language Learning, 1994
Patterns of growth in one language in relation to growth in the other and also with respect to growth in both languages were studied in a group of 20 bilingual (English/Spanish) infants ages 10 to 30 months. The rate and pace of development were similar in both groups; differences among the bilinguals included their use of "referential"…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, Cognitive Style, Comparative Analysis
Peer reviewedPearson, Barbara Zurer; And Others – Language Learning, 1993
Administered the MacArthur Communicative Development Inventory to 25 bilingual (English/Spanish) and 35 monolingual children who were furnishing data for longitudinal study. Assessment of the degree of overlap between bilingual children's lexical development in their two languages showed that they developed early vocabulary at the same rate as…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Comparative Analysis, Infants, Language Acquisition
