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Van Wonderen, Elise; Unsworth, Sharon – Journal of Child Language, 2021
The Cross-linguistic Lexical Task (CLT; Haman, Luniewska & Pomiechowska, 2015) is a vocabulary task designed to enable cross-linguistic comparisons both across and within (bilingual) children. In this paper we assessed the validity of the CLT as a measure of language proficiency in bilingual children, by determining the extent to which: (1)…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Bilingualism, Contrastive Linguistics, Task Analysis
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Gordon, Katherine R. – Journal of Child Language, 2016
Past research suggests that bilingualism positively affects children's performance in false belief tasks. However, researchers have yet to fully explore factors that are related to better performance in these tasks within bilingual groups. The current study includes an assessment of proficiency in both languages (which was lacking in past work)…
Descriptors: Child Language, Bilingual Students, Preschool Children, Language Proficiency
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Marchetto, Erika; Bonatti, Luca L. – Journal of Child Language, 2015
To achieve language proficiency, infants must find the building blocks of speech and master the rules governing their legal combinations. However, these problems are linked: words are also built according to rules. Here, we explored early morphosyntactic sensitivity by testing when and how infants could find either words or within-word structure…
Descriptors: Child Language, Infants, Language Proficiency, Vocabulary Development