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Core, Cynthia; Hoff, Erika; Rumiche, Rosario; Senor, Melissa – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2013
Purpose: Vocabulary assessment holds promise as a way to identify young bilingual children at risk for language delay. This study compares 2 measures of vocabulary in a group of young Spanish-English bilingual children to a single-language measure used with monolingual children. Method: Total vocabulary and conceptual vocabulary were used to…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Spanish Speaking, English, Language Impairments
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Pearson, 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