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Budde-Spengler, Nora; Sachse, Steffi; Rinker, Tanja – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2021
Lexical development of bilingual children is influenced by a number of input factors. In the present study, early lexical skills of 25-month old children growing up with Turkish and German were assessed. Parents of 92 children filled out a newly developed list for productive Turkish vocabulary, as well as a vocabulary list for German. A parental…
Descriptors: Linguistic Input, Bilingualism, Turkish, German
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Mani, Nivedita; Huettig, Falk – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2012
Are there individual differences in children's prediction of upcoming linguistic input and what do these differences reflect? Using a variant of the preferential looking paradigm (Golinkoff, Hirsh-Pasek, Cauley, & Gordon, 1987), we found that, upon hearing a sentence like, "The boy eats a big cake," 2-year-olds fixate edible objects…
Descriptors: Comprehension, Language Processing, Evidence, Form Classes (Languages)