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The Effect of Form Similarity on Bilingual Children's Lexical Development.
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Schelletter, Christina – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2002
Examines form-similar nouns in early lexical development of a bilingual German/English child, as well as effects of form similarity in picture naming and translation in two groups of German/English children. Results show an effect of form similarity in early lexical development; form similar words occurred frequently in the beginning of the…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Cognitive Processes, English, German
From Form to Meaning: Stages in the Acquisition of Second-Language Vocabulary.
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Talamas, Adrienne; Kroll, Judith F.; Dufour, Robert – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 1999
Examined why adults learning second languages make frequent errors in lexical form. More and less fluent bilinguals in English and Spanish performed a translation recognition task in which they had to decide whether the second of two words was the correct translation of the first. Less fluent participants experienced more interference for…
Descriptors: Adults, Bilingualism, Cognitive Processes, English