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Morin-Lessard, Elizabeth; Byers-Heinlein, Krista – Journal of Child Language, 2019
Previous research suggests that English monolingual children and adults can use speech disfluencies (e.g., "uh") to predict that a speaker will name a novel object. To understand the origins of this ability, we tested 48 32-month-old children (monolingual English, monolingual French, bilingual English-French; Study 1) and 16 adults…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, French, Monolingualism, English