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Alt, Mary; Arizmendi, Genesis Dominique; Gray, Shelley; Hogan, Tiffany Patrice; Green, Samuel; Cowan, Nelson – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2019
Purpose: We compared novel word learning in 2nd-grade children with typical development who were Spanish-English bilinguals to English monolinguals to understand word learning in bilingual children. Method: Children (monolinguals n = 167, bilinguals n = 76) engaged in 5 computer-based tasks that assessed word learning in 6 different contexts. The…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Monolingualism, Bilingualism, Spanish
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Alt, Mary; Meyers, Christina; Figueroa, Cecilia – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2013
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine whether children exposed to 2 languages would benefit from the phonotactic probability cues of a single language in the same way as monolingual peers and to determine whether crosslinguistic influence would be present in a fast-mapping task. Method: Two groups of typically developing children…
Descriptors: Regression (Statistics), Spanish, Cues, Task Analysis