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Goodman, Gail S.; And Others – Child Development, 1985
Studied bilingual children and children learning a second language using a picture-word interference task. The printed distractors interfered with naming both on trials where the distractor and naming language were the same and on trials where they were different. These and other results question whether an "input switch" operates for bilingual…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language), Elementary Education, Interference (Language)

Cohen, Sophia R. – Child Development, 1985
Used descriptive analysis and a forced choice task to investigate childrens' and adults' production, interpretation, and judgment of notation. Results showed that young children may not impose the same symbol-meaning structure at decoding that was proposed at encoding. Only after this ability develops does a preference for one form-one function…
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Development, Encoding (Psychology), Language Acquisition