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Sheng, Li; Lu, Ying; Kan, Pui Fong – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2011
Two groups of Mandarin-English bilingual children (3-5-year-olds, 6-8-year-olds) participated in a picture identification task and a picture naming task in both languages. Results revealed age-related growth in English, but not Mandarin vocabulary. Composite vocabulary was larger than either single-language vocabulary in the younger children but…
Descriptors: Vocabulary, Mandarin Chinese, English, Language Dominance
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Yan, Stephanie; Nicoladis, Elena – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2009
By school age, some bilingual children can score equivalently to monolinguals in receptive vocabulary but still lag in expressive vocabulary. In this study, we test whether bilingual children have greater difficulty with lexical access, as has been reported for adult bilinguals. School-aged French-English bilingual children were given tests of…
Descriptors: Monolingualism, Bilingualism, Vocabulary Development, Receptive Language