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Gauthier, K.; Genesee, F.; Kasparian, K. – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2012
The present study examined the language development of children adopted from China to examine possible early age effects with respect to their use of complement clitics, lexical diversity and verb morphology. We focused on these aspects of French because they distinguish second language learners of French and native French-speaking children with…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Verbs, Morphemes, Language Impairments
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Li, Degao; Zhang, Xiannv; Wang, Guoying – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2011
In the development of their semantic networks, bilinguals can be influenced by the levels of proficiency they have in their second language (L2) and by the age at which they acquired the language. Two exercises, one in word association and one in forced-choice decision-making, were used to test whether the pattern of relative awareness of thematic…
Descriptors: Semantics, Performance Factors, High School Students, Native Language