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Hurtado, Nereyda; Gruter, Theres; Marchman, Virginia A.; Fernald, Anne – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2014
Research with monolingual children has shown that early efficiency in real-time word recognition predicts later language and cognitive outcomes. In parallel research with young bilingual children, processing ability and vocabulary size are closely related within each language, although not across the two languages. For children in dual-language…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Toddlers, Efficiency, Language Processing
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Thorpe, Kirsten; Fernald, Anne – Cognition, 2006
Three studies investigated how 24-month-olds and adults resolve temporary ambiguity in fluent speech when encountering prenominal adjectives potentially interpretable as nouns. Children were tested in a looking-while-listening procedure to monitor the time course of speech processing. In Experiment 1, the familiar and unfamiliar adjectives…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Adults, Language Processing, Form Classes (Languages)
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Hurtado, Nereyda; Marchman, Virginia A.; Fernald, Anne – Journal of Child Language, 2007
Research on the development of efficiency in spoken language understanding has focused largely on middle-class children learning English. Here we extend this research to Spanish-learning children (n=49; M=2;0; range=1;3-3;1) living in the USA in Latino families from primarily low socioeconomic backgrounds. Children looked at pictures of familiar…
Descriptors: Language Research, Eye Movements, Oral Language, Disadvantaged Youth
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Fernald, Anne; Mazzie, Claudia – Developmental Psychology, 1991
In two experiments, mothers told their infant and an adult a story that involved target words, and women taught an assembly procedure involving novel terminology to another adult. In speech to infants, mothers positioned focused words on pitch peaks, but in speech to adults, the emphasis was more variable. (BC)
Descriptors: Adults, Caregiver Speech, Comparative Analysis, Cues