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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Bilingual adults"”.
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Word representations of bilingual adults and children
… and non-linguistic factors that affect bilingual performance with different language tasks. The aim of the investigation is twofold: on the one hand it examines the role of translation similarity in processing words in the two languages. Specifically, if processing of cognates …
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The relationships among acculturation, executive functioning and English language proficiency in bilingual adults
… Third Edition (WIAT-III). Participants were 38 bilingual English language learner adults (female, n = 27) with a mean age of 27.32 years. Moderated multiple regression and dominance analyses revealed a significant model in which acculturation, executive functioning, and demographic variables …
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The acquisition of bare nominals by three populations of Spanish-English bilingual adults
… English after adolescence and simultaneous bilinguals who grew up in the United States speaking both English and Spanish from birth. Specifically, this study explores interpretation, production and intuition regarding the acceptability of definite articles in different contexts. Since the …
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Lexical errors produced during category generation tasks by bilingual adults and bilingual typically developing and language-impaired seven to nine-year-old children
… lexical networks. Examining the errors made by bilingual children with and without language impairment (LI) and bilingual adults may help to distinguish the effects of ability versus experience on the development and organization of lexical-semantic categories. The purpose of this study was to …
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The effects of acculturation, age and years in the United States on RBANS performance in Russian bilinguals
… Normative Update (RBANS) in a sample of Russian bilingual adults. There is a dearth of research conducted on neuropsychological assessment measures normed in America for this population. The Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test, Fourth Edition (PPVT-4) was also administered as a measure of English …
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Does bilingualism confer perspective-taking advantages in language use?
The bilingual advantage hypothesis proposes that being bilingual leads to benefits in cognitive abilities that are mediated by superior executive control. Bilingual children demonstrate accelerated mastery of basic cognitive skills such as inhibition control (Carlson & Meltzoff, 2008) and are …
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Effects of Language Dominance in Spanish-English Bilingual Speakers
… language dominance on thought and perception in bilingual speakers has received little attention. This study examines the semantic networks of Spanish-English bilingual adults and monolingual English-speaking peers to determine whether language dominance structures the semantic space of a …
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Neural and Behavioural Effects of Bilingualism on Selective Attention
Bilingualism has been shown to modulate the neural mechanisms of selective attention, with differences between monolinguals and bilinguals observed even when they display equivalent behavioural performance in a selective attention task. This suggests that the crucial consequence of learning and …
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Bilingualism and cognition: exploring the bilingual cognitive advantage across the lifespan
Research has demonstrated that bilingual children who constantly juggle two languages have better controlled processing and enhanced executive function (Bialystok, 2001; Bialystok & Martin, 2004). These findings have also been extended to adults whereby bilingual adults across the lifespan were …