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McCarthy, Kathleen M.; Mahon, Merle; Rosen, Stuart; Evans, Bronwen G. – Child Development, 2014
The majority of bilingual speech research has focused on simultaneous bilinguals. Yet, in immigrant communities, children are often initially exposed to their family language (L1), before becoming gradually immersed in the host country's language (L2). This is typically referred to as sequential bilingualism. Using a longitudinal design, this…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Longitudinal Studies, Speech, Young Children
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Ratcliff, Roger; Love, Jessica; Thompson, Clarissa A.; Opfer, John E. – Child Development, 2012
Children (n = 130; M[subscript age] = 8.51-15.68 years) and college-aged adults (n = 72; M[subscript age] = 20.50 years) completed numerosity discrimination and lexical decision tasks. Children produced longer response times (RTs) than adults. R. Ratcliff's (1978) diffusion model, which divides processing into components (e.g., quality of…
Descriptors: Children, Young Adults, Older Adults, Reaction Time
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Mitchell, P.; Robinson, E. J. – Child Development, 1994
Three experiments tested four- to seven-year olds' ability to understand and reconcile message-desire discrepant stories. The findings suggest that young children can refrain from a performative response and, as a consequence, attend to literal meaning under some conditions when evaluating utterances. (MDM)
Descriptors: Beliefs, Childhood Attitudes, Cognitive Development, Evaluation