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Linguistic Transfer and the Use of Context by Spanish-English Bilinguals.
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Nagy, William E.; McClure, Erica F.; Montserrat, Mir – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1997
Investigates the effects of Spanish-English bilinguals' first-language syntactic knowledge on the guesses they make about the meanings of new words encountered in English contexts. Examines a particular type of transfer to understand the process of vocabulary acquisition in second-language readers. (48 references) (Author/CK)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Cultural Context, Elementary Secondary Education, English