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Download full textBassil Mashaqba; Anas Huneety; Abdallah Alshdaifat; Wafa'a Abu Aisheh – Eurasian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2023
This study examined the developmental trajectories of Arabic grammatical number in Arabic-English bilingual children. The samples consisted of 80 individuals (40 monolingual children residing in Jordan and 40 bilingual children residing in the USA), aged between 5 and 9 years. Data was collected through two tasks involving picture able objects and…
Descriptors: Grammar, Arabic, Language Acquisition, Accuracy
Direct linkWood, Carla; Diehm, Emily A.; Callender, Maya F. – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2016
Purpose: The current study was designed to (a) describe average hourly Language Environment Analysis (LENA) data for preschool-age Spanish--English bilinguals (SEBs) and typically developing monolingual peers and (b) compare LENA data with mean length of utterance in words (MLUw) and total number of words (TNW) calculated on a selected sample of…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Bilingual Students, Spanish Speaking, English
Lin, Lu-Chun; Johnson, Cynthia J. – Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics, 2010
Adele Miccio recognized the paucity of information on the phonological development of children from diverse linguistic and cultural backgrounds, and emphasized the need to apply advances in bilingual phonological research toward an appropriate phonological measure for bilingual children. In the spirit of her pioneering work, the present study…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Monolingualism, Mandarin Chinese, Language Acquisition
Peer reviewedGoldstein, Brian; Washington, Patricia Swasey – Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools, 2001
A study investigated phonological patterns in 12 bilingual (Spanish-English) 4-year-old children. There were no significant differences between the two languages on percentage of occurrence for phonological processes, however, children exhibited different patterns of production across the two languages and showed different patterns compared to…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Consonants, Language Impairments, Language Patterns
Akiyama, Michihiko – 1976
A study was conducted to compare the relative performance on yes-no questions of bilingual and monolingual children and to discuss the relationship of semantic development and linguistic development, both in the bilinguals and monolinguals. Eighteen English monolingual, eighteen Japanese monolingual, and eighteen Japanese-English bilingual…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Child Language, Children, Comprehension
Thompson, Linda – 1995
Data from a larger ethnolinguistic study are presented to demonstrate patterns of pupil-teachers exchanges between bilingual children and monolingual teachers in an urban nursery school in England. Children were aged 3-4 years. Naturally-occurring discourse data were audiotaped and substantial contextual data was gathered. Analysis of patterns in…
Descriptors: Bilingual Students, Bilingualism, Classroom Communication, Discourse Analysis
PDF pending restorationJohnson, Teresa H. – 1978
Similarities and differences in language acquisition and variations in patterns of language dominance were studied with three four-year-old girls. The ideoqraphic study of child speech involved a monolingual English-speaking child, a monolingual Spanish-speaking child, and a bilingual English-Spanish-speaking child. The following measures were…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Case Studies, Child Language, Communicative Competence (Languages)
