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White, Anne; Malt, Barbara C.; Verheyen, Steven; Storms, Gert – Language Learning and Development, 2020
Although children may productively use concrete nouns after limited exposure, complete mastery of adult-like patterns of noun usage can take up to 14 years. We evaluated whether a transition from universal to language-specific naming is part of the refinement in later lexical development, and we compared how this refinement plays out in…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Monolingualism, French, Indo European Languages
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Shum, Kathy Kar-man; Au, Terry Kit-fong – Language Learning and Development, 2017
Rapid automatized naming (RAN) robustly predicts early reading abilities across languages, but its underlying mechanism remains unclear. This study found that RAN associated significantly with processing speed but not with phonological awareness or orthographic knowledge in 89 Hong Kong Chinese second-graders. RAN overlaps more with processing…
Descriptors: Naming, Foreign Countries, Reading Ability, Phonological Awareness