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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

Lexical Transfer and Second Language Morphological Development.

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Hancin-Bhatt, Barbara; Nagy, William – Applied Psycholinguistics, 1994

A total of 196 Latino bilingual students in grades 4, 6, and 8 were asked to give the Spanish equivalent for English words, some of which had derivational and inflectional suffixes. The results indicated that the students' ability to translate cognates increased with age above and beyond any increase in their vocabulary knowledge in Spanish and…

Descriptors: Age Differences, Bilingual Students, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students