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Weismer, Susan Ellis; Kaushanskaya, Margarita – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2010
In her Keynote Article, Paradis reviews evidence from bilingual language development to assess the claims of two opposing theoretical views of language disorders. Specifically, she examines the evidence for similarities in language profiles of typically developing (TD) sequential bilingual (second language [L2]) children and monolingual children…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Monolingualism, Language Acquisition, Bilingualism
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Leonard, Laurence B. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2010
I commend Johanne Paradis not only for her interesting Keynote Article but also for the careful research that she has conducted along with her collaborators in the area of bilingual language development and disorders. Her contributions have been significant and are sure to shape our theoretical as well as clinical understanding of specific…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Monolingualism, Language Acquisition, Bilingualism
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Salomo, Dorothe; Lieven, Elena; Tomasello, Michael – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2010
In two studies we investigated 2-year-old children's answers to predicate-focus questions depending on the preceding context. Children were presented with a successive series of short video clips showing transitive actions (e.g., frog washing duck) in which either the action (action-new) or the patient (patient-new) was the changing, and therefore…
Descriptors: Context Effect, Toddlers, Video Technology, Language Processing
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Paradis, Johanne – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2010
Research at the interface of bilingual development and child language disorders has increased greatly in the past decade. The purpose of this article is to highlight the theoretical and clinical implications of this research. Studies examining the similarities in linguistic characteristics between typically developing sequential bilingual children…
Descriptors: Language Impairments, Child Language, Monolingualism, Bilingualism
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Rothweiler, Monika – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2010
In her Keynote Article, Paradis discusses the role of the interface between bilingual development and specific language impairment (SLI) on two different levels. On the level of theoretical explanations of SLI, Paradis asks how domain general versus domain-specific perspectives on SLI can account for bilingual SLI, as well as what bilingual SLI…
Descriptors: Area Studies, Language Research, Linguistics, Language Impairments
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Athanasopoulos, Panos; Kasai, Chise – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2008
Recent research shows that speakers of languages with obligatory plural marking (English) preferentially categorize objects based on common shape, whereas speakers of nonplural-marking classifier languages (Yucatec and Japanese) preferentially categorize objects based on common material. The current study extends that investigation to the domain…
Descriptors: Novelty (Stimulus Dimension), Language Proficiency, Bilingualism, Grammar
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Wang, Min; Cheng, Chenxi – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2008
We reported three experiments investigating subsyllabic unit preference in young Chinese children. In Experiment 1, a Chinese sound similarity judgment task was designed in which 48 pair of stimuli varied in terms of shared subsyllabic units (i.e., vowel, body, rime, onset-coda). Grade 1 Chinese-speaking monolingual children judged pairs with…
Descriptors: Speech, Oral Language, Preschool Children, Rhyme
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Burns, Tracey C.; Yoshida, Katherine A.; Hill, Karen; Werker, Janet F. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2007
The development of native language phonetic representations in bilingual infants was compared to that of monolingual infants. Infants (ages 6-8, 10-12, and 14-20 months) from English-French or English-only environments were tested on their ability to discriminate a French and an English voice onset time distinction. Although 6- to 8-month-olds…
Descriptors: Phonetics, Infants, Monolingualism, French
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Windsor, Jennifer; Kohnert, Kathryn; Loxtercamp, Amanda L.; Kan, Pui-Fong – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2008
The performance of 8- to 13-year-old monolingual English-speaking children with language impairment (LI) on seven nonlinguistic tasks was compared with two groups of typically developing children, monolingual English-speaking children, and proficient Spanish-English sequential bilingual children. Group differences were apparent, with a key finding…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Reaction Time, Language Impairments, Monolingualism
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Gutierrez-Clellen, Vera F.; Simon-Cereijido, Gabriela; Wagner, Christine – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2008
The purpose of this study is twofold: (a) to examine whether English finite morphology has the potential to differentiate children with and without language impairment (LI) from Spanish-speaking backgrounds and different levels of English proficiency in comparison to Hispanic English speakers and (b) to investigate the extent to which children who…
Descriptors: Language Dominance, Verbs, Language Impairments, Bilingualism
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Su, I-Ru – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2001
Investigated how adult monolinguals and bilinguals incorporate the context cue in assigning the agent role vis-a-vis intrasentential cues (animacy and word order). Subjects were first and second language speakers of Chinese and English. Results show that both Chinese and English controls paid less attention to context than to intrasentential cues…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Chinese, Context Effect, English
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Marian, Viorica; Spivey, Michael – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2003
Examined the performance of bilingual Russian-English speakers and monolingual English speakers during auditory processing of competing lexical items using eye tracking. Results revealed that both bilinguals and monolinguals experienced competition from English lexical items overlapping phonetically with an English target item. (VWL)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, English, Eye Movements, Interference (Language)
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Dowens, Margaret Gillon; Carreiras, Manuel – Applied Psycholinguistics, 2006
Clahsen and Felser (CF) analyze the performance of monolingual children and adult second language (L2) learners in off-line and on-line tasks and compare their performance with that of adult monolinguals. They conclude that child first language (L1) processing is basically the same as adult L1 processing (the contiguity assumption), with…
Descriptors: Sentences, Short Term Memory, Monolingualism, Native Speakers
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Chitiri, Helena-Fivi; Willows, Dale M. – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1997
A study investigated word recognition processes of Greek/English bilinguals in relation to linguistic and syntactic differences in the languages, then compared those processes with those of monolinguals. Bilingual readers performed differently in the languages, conforming more to monolingual patterns in their native language (Greek), interpreted…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Bilingualism, Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics
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Hernandez, Arturo E; And Others – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1994
Investigates the real-time costs of sentence processing in early Spanish-English bilinguals. Bilinguals use an amalgam of monolingual strategies in choosing the agent of a sentence. The reaction time data reveal a larger language-specific component than the choice data. (37 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Analysis of Variance, Auditory Stimuli, Bilingualism, College Students