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Lindgren, Josefin; Reichardt, Valerie; Bohnacker, Ute – First Language, 2022
Closely related Swedish and German both mark information status of referents morphologically, though little is known about its acquisition. This study investigates character introductions in the narratives of 4- and 6-year-old Swedish-German bilinguals (N = 40) in both languages, elicited with MAIN "Cat/Dog." We analyse effects of age…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Nouns, Phrase Structure, Form Classes (Languages)
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Hovsepian, Alice – First Language, 2018
Four-year-old (n = 20) and five-year-old (n = 22) bilingual children were tested twice in six months on Armenian (minority language) and English (majority language) picture identification and picture naming tasks to examine receptive and expressive vocabulary growth in both languages. Parental education, Armenian/English language exposure, and…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Predictor Variables, Bilingualism, Language Minorities