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Showing 1 to 20 of 255 for “"monolingual"”.
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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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Idiom Comprehension In Bilingual And Monolingual Adolescents
… reading comprehension, in typically developing, monolingual adolescents. Since reading comprehension and idiom comprehension share many of the same linguistic processes, idiom comprehension may provide a unique perspective for investigating Latino adolescents' reading comprehension. Using the …
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Monolingual and Bilingual Differences in Reinforcement Learning
… differences in cognitive performance between monolinguals and bilinguals at all. Given the above, the current study attempted to bridge the gap in the literature by looking at differences in RL between monolingual and bilingual language groups, and also differences within-bilinguals, based on …
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Exploiting monolingual data for neural machine translation
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2024-03-01 without embargo terms
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Pragmatic word learning in monolingual and bilingually exposed children
… similar, and often greater vocabulary than their monolingual peers (De Houwer, Bornstein, & Putnick, 2014; Umbel, Pearson, Fernández, & Oller, 1992). A range of studies investigating attention to socio-pragmatic speaker cues found increased reliance on speaker cues in bilinguals (Colunga, Brojde, …
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Assessing language development in Arabic-learning monolingual and bilingual toddlers
… that could modulate vocabulary knowledge in monolingual and bilingual children such as SES, gender, siblings, etc. has been examined as these might be important to consider by parents, practitioners and researchers when using the CDI. In addition to the standardization of the dialect-adapted …
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Types of interference and their resolution in monolingual language production
There is accumulating evidence that speakers recruit inhibitory control to manage the conflicting demands of online language production, e.g., when selecting from among co-activated representations during object naming or when suppressing alternative competing terms in referential language use. …
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Borderlands, Translingualism, and Latinx Students in a Monolingual Community College
… program that reaffirms both whiteness and monolingualism. I start with a local community called Aldine Texas, with an overwhelmingly Latinx, migrant, and Spanish-English borderland space. But the local “state” institutions ignore this translingualism and transnationalism and erase both the …
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Metacognitive development and the disambiguation effect in monolingual and bilingual children
… demonstrated to follow the same trajectory in monolinguals, bilinguals and children exposed to another language (Experiment 4 and 5). Bilinguals show a marginally better ability to recall novel foreign language labels. The disambiguation effect is the result of cognitive immaturity in young …
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Neural Encoding of Continuous Attended Speech in Monolingual and Bilingual Listeners
… Although behavioural differences between monolinguals and bilinguals on tasks of selective attention remain controversial, the experience of learning and using a second language undoubtedly represents a major environmental demand that can impact the way the brain selects and processes …
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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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The use of word-learning principles in young monolingual and bilingual children
… principle. In the present cross-sectional study, monolingual and bilingual children were tested at 27 and at 35 months of age. In a first task, monolingual and bilingual children were presented with novel labels violating mutual exclusivity within a language, and were tested on their learning of …
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Verbal complexity in South Bolivian Quechua : insights from the speech of monolingual elders
… Quechua (SBQ) variety as it is spoken by monolingual elders in a rural town of Southern Bolivia. It states that the verbal morphology is composed by two types of morphemes: simplex and complex. This analysis relies on L1 native speaker intuitions. The findings are different from what …
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Differences in IQ and Memory of Monolingual/Bilingual Children who Suffered a TBI
… a TBI, will they have even more difficulty than monolinguals with language tasks because they have a smaller vocabulary base? This study aims to further elucidate whether verbal memory will be more severely impacted than nonverbal memory in this same bilingual pediatric TBI population. 18 …
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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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Student English achievement, attitude and behaviour in bilingual and monolingual schools in Aceh, Indonesia
… setting up bilingual schools alongside state-run monolingual schools. The purpose of this study is threefold. The first is to investigate the achievements of first year middle school students in Banda Aceh (Indonesia) in English essay writing, English reading comprehension, and attitude and …
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Lexico-semantic processing in adult monolingual Russian and bilingual Russian (L1) - English (L2) Speakers
… was to examine lexico-semantic processes in monolingual Russian and bilingual Russian (L1) – English (L2) speaking adults. This has been achieved via two main approaches: The classic semantic priming paradigm in naming tasks and free recall tasks which take into account the growing body of …
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A Description of Monolingual English Teachers Appreciations of Student Language Repertoires in Hutterian Colony Schools
This phenomenological study describes five monolingual English teachers’ understandings of the language repertoires of their students in a Hutterian colony context. The five participants deliver the provincial curriculum through the English language to Hutterian colony students who have the three …
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The Role of the DLPFC in Bilingual and Monolingual Switching: Evidence from MVPA and tDCS
… second was to determine whether bilinguals and monolinguals differed in this relationship. The first study used multi-voxel pattern analysis (MVPA) to determine whether the patterns of fMRI activity in the left and right DLPFC for language control were similar to the patterns of activity for …
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DEVELOPMENT OF DISCOURSE MARKERS IN KOREAN AND ENGLISH MONOLINGUAL CHILDREN AND IN KOREAN-ENGLISH BILINGUAL CHILDREN
… 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. While the core …
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