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Vogelzang, Margreet; Guasti, Maria Teresa; van Rijn, Hedderik; Hendriks, Petra – Cognitive Science, 2021
Reduced forms such as the pronoun "he" provide little information about their intended meaning compared to more elaborate descriptions such as "the lead singer of Coldplay." Listeners must therefore use contextual information to recover their meaning. Across languages, there appears to be a trade-off between the informativity…
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Processes, Language Processing, Form Classes (Languages)
Cavosi, Ricciarda; Taeschner, Traute – Rassegna Italiana di Linguistica Applicata, 1987
Addresses two questions: (1) When do children who are bilingual from birth become aware that they speak two languages? and (2) What are the factors that lead to this awareness? The subjects in the study described here were Italian/German bilingual children living in the Italian region of Alto Adige. (CFM)
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes