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Quirk, Erin; Cohen, Cathy – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
The cognate advantage in bilingual children varies in strength across groups and individuals, in particular on receptive measures (e.g. picture-identification). This variation may be due to children's developing ability to benefit from cognates in such tasks, yet longitudinal studies of this phenomenon, especially with older children, are rare.…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Bilingual Education, Bilingual Education Programs, Language Acquisition
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Bird, J. Elizabeth; Bennett, Adrienne F. – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1974
Children at four age levels (4,6,8, and 10 years) were given continuous recognition tasks using concrete noun, abstract noun, and pictorial stimuli in a 4 x 3 factorial design. Recognition for both concrete and abstract nouns was found to be linear and increasing significantly with age, but no age trends for picture recognition were found.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, Language Acquisition, Nouns