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Nicoladis, Elena; Jiang, Zixia – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2018
The primary purpose of the present study was to test language and cognitive predictors of lexical selection in the storytelling of monolingual and bilingual children. Measures of language proficiency and cognitive ability were assessed with both English- and Mandarin-speaking monolinguals and Mandarin-English bilinguals aged 4 to 6 years old. To…
Descriptors: Monolingualism, Bilingualism, Cognitive Ability, Vocabulary Development
Kuwabara, Megumi; Son, Ji Y.; Smith, Linda B. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2011
A growing number of studies suggests cultural differences in the attention and evaluation of information in adults (Hedden, Ketay, Aron, Markus, & Gabrieli, 2008; Markus & Kitayama, 1991; Masuda & Nisbett, 2001). One cultural comparison, between Westerners, such as Americans, and Easterners, such as the Japanese, suggests that…
Descriptors: Cues, Nonverbal Communication, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences
Bialystok, Ellen; Barac, Raluca; Blaye, Agnes; Poulin-Dubois, Diane – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2010
The effect of bilingualism on the cognitive skills of young children was investigated by comparing performance of 162 children who belonged to one of two age groups (approximately 3- and 4.5-year-olds) and one of three language groups on a series of tasks examining executive control and word mapping. The children were monolingual English speakers,…
Descriptors: Monolingualism, Bilingualism, Cognitive Ability, Vocabulary
Hohenstein, Jill M. – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2005
The relation between thought and language was explored using 2 experiments testing monolingual Spanish- and English-speaking children's responses to visual motion event stimuli. In a match-to-sample task (Experiment 1) 7-year-old English speakers fixated on videos matching the manner (rather than path) of a target video more often than…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Verbs, Motion, Monolingualism