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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Monolingual Children"”.
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English syllable confusion and imitation in Korean bilingual and monolingual children and adults
… study, Korean-English bilingual (KEB) and Korean monolingual (KM) children, between the ages of 8 and 13 years, and KEB adults, ages 18 and older, were examined with one speech perception task, called the Nonsense Syllable Confusion Matrix (NSCM) task (Allen, 2005), and two production tasks, …
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DEVELOPMENT OF DISCOURSE MARKERS IN KOREAN AND ENGLISH MONOLINGUAL CHILDREN AND IN KOREAN-ENGLISH BILINGUAL CHILDREN
… talk-in-interaction of Korean-English bilingual children and their monolingual peers in two languages. The corpus-driven analysis proposes a core meaning of the two DMs as signaling contextual divergence in two monolingual groups. Both similarities and differences coexist in the bilingual data. …
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Sentence Comprehension in Monolingual and Bilingual Children
Abstract Bilingual children outperform monolingual children on non-linguistic tasks that tap executive function. It still unknown whether the enhancement of executive functioning found for bilingual children improves complex linguistic comprehension. The present study examined possible differences …
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Myelomeningocele and the Neuropsychological Functioning of Bilingual Children
… the brain and spinal cord of millions of children. Children of Hispanic background have the highest prevalence rate of this condition. Despite this fact, research that examines the cognitive profiles of Hispanic children with myelomeningocele is limited. A review on bilingualism and …
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Navigating Variability: Language Development in Linguistically Diverse Environments
… population is bilingual, meaning that most children grow up hearing multiple languages and/or accents. How do children navigate this input variability when acquiring their language(s)? In this thesis, I report three studies exploring this question in one of the most culturally and …
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Lexikal organisation hos en- och flerspråkiga skolbarn med språkstörning
Children with language impairment (LI) often exhibit lexical difficulties with negative consequences for school success. Lexical size and lexical organization have both been found to be affected, with problems in lexical organization exceeding those in lexical size. The research on LI has had a …
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La Quiero Ver~Quiero Verla: Monolingual and bilingual children's variable clitic placement
This study addresses whether/how monolingual and bilingual Spanish-speaking children differ in their acquisition of grammar by examining direct object clitics in contexts where either proclisis or enclisis is possible (Lo voy a ver vs. Voy a verlo). The current study examines variable clitic …
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Word learning strategies in early childhood : mutual exclusivity across language backgrounds
… nature of word learning, infants and young children successfully learn new words at a rapid pace. As most research has focused on the word learning strategies used by monolingual English-speaking children, less is known about how bilingual children manage ambiguity and learn new words. As …
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A sociolinguistic study of the 'Broken Plural' in the speech of Iraqi Arabic-English bilingual children
… (BP), in the speech of bilingual Iraqi-English children. BP is an irregular plural form, there is no fixed suffix to be added and it is derived by altering the consonant and vowel patterns inside the singular noun/adjective. Monolinguals acquire it from their environment; they learn it …
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Biliteracy Effects on Phonological Awareness, Oral Language Proficiency and Reading Skills in Taiwanese Mandarin-English Bilingual Children
… language on Taiwanese Mandarin-English bilingual children's Chinese and English phonological awareness, Chinese and English oral language proficiency, and English reading skills. Participants were 40 Taiwanese Mandarin-English bilingual children and 20 English monolingual children in the U.S. …
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Biliteracy effects on phonological awareness, oral language proficiency and reading skills in Taiwanese Mandarin-English bilingual children
… language on Taiwanese Mandarin-English bilingual children’s Chinese and English phonological awareness, Chinese and English oral language proficiency, and English reading skills. Participants were 40 Taiwanese Mandarin-English bilingual children and 20 English monolingual children in the U.S. …
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Saute ça : the acquisition of the faire faire causative by first and second language learners of French
Do young Bengali-speaking children learning French as a second language at preschool follow the same developmental path as French first language children with respect to the acquisition of the French faire faire causative? As an initial step toward answering this question, a flexible …
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Young Children's Understanding of the Relationship Between Conventionality and Communication
<p>This dissertation explores children's understanding of the conventionality of language, the notion that shared knowledge of the meanings of linguistic symbols enables communication using those symbols. Three studies investigate whether monolingual children recognize that different speakers share …
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A study of bilingual children reading in a second language.
… research tested the hypothesis that bilingual children, using their second language and matched with monolingual children on a word recognition test, may differ significantly from them in the miscues made when reading and in attitudes to reading. Some prior research has indicated ethnic …
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The comprehension skills of children learning English as an additional language (EAL)
The attainment gap between monolingual, English-speaking children and children learning EAL is a continuing cause for concern (NALDIC, 2004). Investigations into EAL learners' literacy skills have identified comprehension as a key area of difficulty for this group (e.g. Hutchinson, Whiteley, Smith …
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Exploring the degree of native-likeness in bilingual acquisition: second and heritage language acquisition of Korean case-ellipsis
… different types of bilinguals as well as between monolingual and bilingual populations. An oral picture description task and a written forced-choice elicitation task are developed to investigate how different populations employ the relevant factors in Korean CE and if certain types of cues are …
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The acquisition of Mandarin by heritage speakers and second language learners
… encoded in English, have different AoAs in monolingual Mandarin-speaking children, and are in different linguistic domains (phonology, morpho-semantics, syntax, and syntax-semantics interface). Three offline tasks were used for testing: a Tone Identification Task, an Acceptability Judgement …
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Interactive Development Of F0 As An Acoustic Cue For Korean Stop Contrast
… the word-initial stop productions of 58 Korean monolingual children aged 20 to 47 months. The production experiment confirmed that VOT is useful for distinguishing fortis stops, but F0 is required for distinguishing between lenis and aspirated stops, and this tendency is significantly related to …
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The developmental progression of cognitive-linguistic skills in emergent bilingual children
… that focuses upon literacy development in monolingual, English speaking children, very little research has been conducted regarding the problems encountered by children learning English as an additional language (EAL). Recent political and educational concerns have been the educational …
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An exploratory study into home minority language usage and maintenance in bilingual primary school children in Northern Ireland’s growing multicultural community
… linguistically diverse parents of primary school children living in the ABC council area who were raising their children to be bilingual but had concerns about their children’s home minority language attrition.<br/><br/>Data was collected from parents and children and analysed using grounded …
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