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Casalis, S.; Deacon, S. H.; Pacton, S. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2011
This study examined the relationship between morphological awareness and spelling. We show that French children in Grades 3 and 4 appear to use morphological information in spelling; spelling of sounds for which there are several alternatives was more accurate in derived than in nonderived words. The link between morphological awareness and…
Descriptors: Spelling, Morphology (Languages), Grade 3, Grade 4
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Marinova-Todd, Stefka H. – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2012
The possible advantage of bilingual children over monolinguals in analyzing word meanings from verbal context was examined. The subjects were 40 third-grade children (20 bilingual and 20 monolingual) recruited from independent schools in the USA. The two groups of participants were compared on their performance on a standardized test of receptive…
Descriptors: Semantics, Standardized Tests, Monolingualism, Bilingualism