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Yow, W. Quin; Markman, Ellen M. – Child Development, 2016
Bilingual children regularly face communicative challenges when speakers switch languages. To cope with such challenges, children may attempt to discern a speaker's communicative intent, thereby heightening their sensitivity to nonverbal communicative cues. Two studies examined whether such communication breakdowns increase sensitivity to…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Cues, Nonverbal Communication, Communication Problems