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Peer reviewedHeyman, Gail D.; Diesendruck, Gil – Developmental Psychology, 2002
Investigated bilingual 6- to 10-year-olds' reasoning about the stability of human psychological characteristics in relation to the obligatory distinction between the Spanish verb forms "ser" and "estar" and the corresponding English form "to be." Found that children treated "ser" and "to be" as…
Descriptors: Beliefs, Bilingualism, Children, Cognitive Development
Peer reviewedCaravolas, Marketa; Bruck, Maggie – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2000
Examined ability of Quebec French-speaking first graders to categorize words on the basis of vowel categories. Found that ability to categorize vowels does not develop uniformly but is affected by degree of spectral/articulatory proximity between vowels, by syllable structure, and potentially by characteristics of the input phonology. (JPB)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Distinctive Features (Language), Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
