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Hendriks, Henriëtte; Hickmann, Maya; Pastorino-Campos, Carla – Journal of Child Language, 2021
Much research has focused on the expression of voluntary motion (Slobin, 2004; Talmy, 2000). The present study contributes to this body of research by comparing how children (three to ten years) and adults narrated short, animated cartoons in English and German (SATELLITE-FRAMED languages) vs. French (VERB-FRAMED). The cartoons showed agents…
Descriptors: Motion, Preschool Children, Children, Cartoons
Aidin Tajbakhsh – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Cognitive flexibility (switching) and control (inhibition) are among widely accepted cognitive advantages of bilingualism. Switch Cost (SC), i.e., the time difference to complete a switch versus non-switch task, is a construct for measuring the switching ability. The need to control the interference and switching between one's languages leads to…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language), Second Language Learning, Native Language