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Direct linkDiesendruck, Gil – Developmental Psychology, 2005
In Study 1, 4-year-olds avoided 2 names for an object when exposed to a common or a proper noun in a puppet's presence or to a common noun in a puppet's absence, but not when exposed to a proper noun in a puppet's absence. In Study 2, 3-year-olds avoided 2 names for an object when the requester for the referent of a second label in a different…
Descriptors: Puppetry, Nouns, Monolingualism, Bilingualism
Peer reviewedChen, Mary Jane; Yuen, Joseph Chak-Kau – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1991
Results of a study of children's performance on pseudohomophone naming, similarity judgment, and lexical decision suggest that training in pinyin, a system for spelling Chinese words in Latin letters, helps child readers pronounce unfamiliar words, and makes them more responsive to visual information but less precise in word recognition.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Acquisition, Non Roman Scripts, Phonemic Alphabets
