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Peer reviewedGathercole, Virginia C. Mueller – Child Development, 1997
Examined acquisition of the mass/count distinction in English. Results indicated that at 7 years bilinguals did not infer from the linguistic context whether new nouns referred to objects or a substance. By 9 years, bilinguals who were strong in English responded similarly to monolingual peers, but bilinguals with lower English abilities still…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Bilingualism, Children, Classification
