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Aktan-Erciyes, Asli – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2020
This study investigates how children lexicalize motion event patterns in their first and second languages, L1- Turkish and L2-English. English is a satellite-framed language that conflates motion with manner expressed in the main verb and path in a non-verbal element, whereas Turkish is a verb-framed language that conflates motion with path in the…
Descriptors: Native Language, Bilingualism, Turkish, Verbs
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Barbosa, Poliana G.; Jiang, Zixia; Nicoladis, Elena – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2019
Previous studies showed that bilinguals tend to score lower on some language tests than monolinguals in each of their languages and outperform monolinguals on some cognitive tasks. We investigated whether short-term and working memory capacities that underlie language abilities differ between sequential bilinguals and monolinguals. We tested…
Descriptors: Short Term Memory, Predictor Variables, Receptive Language, Vocabulary Development
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Miller, Margaret K.; Calandruccio, Lauren; Buss, Emily; McCreery, Ryan W.; Oleson, Jacob; Rodriguez, Barbara; Leibold, Lori J. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2019
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to compare masked English speech recognition thresholds between Spanish-English bilingual and English monolingual children and to evaluate effects of age, maternal education, and English receptive language abilities on individual differences in masked speech recognition. Method: Forty-three Spanish-English…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Monolingualism, Spanish, English (Second Language)
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Lindgren, Josefin – First Language, 2019
This article reports results from a longitudinal study from age 4 to 7 of comprehension and production of narrative macrostructure in Swedish monolingual children (N = 17). "Baby Birds/Baby Goats" from the Multilingual Assessment Instrument for Narratives (LITMUS-MAIN) were used to elicit narratives and ask comprehension questions at age…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, Language Acquisition, Swedish, Language Processing