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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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Aslin, Richard N.; Pisoni, David B. – Child Development, 1980
Critiques previous research concerning differences in voice onset time discrimination between Spanish and English infants and conclusions about the effect of early linguistic experience on speech perception. (RMH)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, English, Infants, Language Acquisition
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Eilers, Rebecca E.; And Others – Child Development, 1980
Argues that Aslin and Pisoni's criticisms are basically unwarranted on both methodological and conceptual grounds. (RMH)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, English, Infants, Language Acquisition
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Pennington, Bruce F.; And Others – Child Development, 1990
Four experiments with familial and clinical dyslexics aimed at defining primary processing deficits in adult dyslexia. Processes studied included phoneme perception and awareness, lexical retrieval, articulatory speed, and short-term memory. Only phoneme awareness met the criteria for primary deficit. Clinical dyslexics exhibited short-term memory…
Descriptors: Adults, Articulation (Speech), Dyslexia, Encoding (Psychology)