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Hurtado, Nereyda; Gruter, Theres; Marchman, Virginia A.; Fernald, Anne – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2014
Research with monolingual children has shown that early efficiency in real-time word recognition predicts later language and cognitive outcomes. In parallel research with young bilingual children, processing ability and vocabulary size are closely related within each language, although not across the two languages. For children in dual-language…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Toddlers, Efficiency, Language Processing
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Gruter, Theres; Lew-Williams, Casey; Fernald, Anne – Second Language Research, 2012
Mastery of grammatical gender is difficult to achieve in a second language (L2). This study investigates whether persistent difficulty with grammatical gender often observed in the speech of otherwise highly proficient L2 learners is best characterized as a production-specific performance problem, or as difficulty with the retrieval of gender…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Research Design, Cues, Nouns