Melody Wiseheart,Mythili Viswanathan,Ellen Bialystok
Melody Wiseheart
Many bilinguals routinely switch between their languages, yet mixed evidence exists about the transfer of language switching skills to broader domains that require attentional control such as task switching. Monolingual and bilingual young ...
Lexical constraints in second language learning: Evidence on grammatical gender in German [0.03%]
二语习得中的词汇制约性——以德语语法性别为例
Susan C Bobb,Judith F Kroll,Carrie N Jackson
Susan C Bobb
The present study asked whether or not the apparent insensitivity of second language (L2) learners to grammatical gender violations reflects an inability to use grammatical information during L2 lexical processing. Native German speakers an...
Bilingual children show an advantage in controlling verbal interference during spoken language comprehension [0.03%]
双语儿童在口语理解过程中抑制口头干扰方面具有优势
Roberto Filippi,John Morris,Fiona M Richardson et al.
Roberto Filippi et al.
Studies measuring inhibitory control in the visual modality have shown a bilingual advantage in both children and adults. However, there is a lack of developmental research on inhibitory control in the auditory modality. This study compared...
Receptive vocabulary differences in monolingual and bilingual children [0.03%]
单语和双语儿童的 receptive 词汇差异
Ellen Bialystok,Gigi Luk,Kathleen F Peets et al.
Ellen Bialystok et al.
Studies often report that bilingual participants possess a smaller vocabulary in the language of testing than monolinguals, especially in research with children. However, each study is based on a small sample so it is difficult to determine...
Uniqueness and Overlap: Characteristics and Longitudinal Correlates of Native Chinese Children's Writing in English as a Foreign Language [0.03%]
独特性与共性：中国儿童英语作文的特点及其长期影响因素分析
Juan Zhang,Catherine McBride-Chang,Richard K Wagner et al.
Juan Zhang et al.
Longitudinal predictors of writing composition in Chinese and English written by the same 153 Hong Kong nine-year-old children were tested, and their production errors within the English essays across ten categories, focusing on punctuation...
Kerry Danahy Ebert,Giang Pham,Kathryn Kohnert
Kerry Danahy Ebert
This study used lexical tasks to examine associations between languages, tasks, and age in bilingual children with primary language impairment. Participants (n = 41, mean age 8;8 years) lived in the United States, spoke primarily Spanish (L...
Assessing language dominance in Mandarin-English bilinguals: Convergence and divergence between subjective and objective measures [0.03%]
普通话-英语双语者占优势语言的评估：主观和客观测量方法的一致与分歧
Li Sheng,Ying Lu,Tamar H Gollan
Li Sheng
This study examines the convergence and divergence between subjective and objective measures of language proficiency for assessing language dominance in Mandarin-English bilinguals. Sixty-two young adults (Experiment 1) and 27 children (Exp...
Self-ratings of Spoken Language Dominance: A Multi-Lingual Naming Test (MINT) and Preliminary Norms for Young and Aging Spanish-English Bilinguals [0.03%]
自我评定口语掌握程度：西班牙语-英语 bilingual青年和老年被试的多语言命名测试（MINT）及初步常模
Tamar H Gollan,Gali H Weissberger,Elin Runnqvist et al.
Tamar H Gollan et al.
This study investigated correspondence between different measures of bilingual language proficiency contrasting self-report, proficiency interview, and picture naming skills. Fifty-two young (Experiment 1) and 20 aging (Experiment 2) Spanis...
W Todd Maddox,Bharath Chandrasekaran
W Todd Maddox
In the visual domain, more than two decades of work posits the existence of dual category learning systems. The reflective system uses working memory to develop and test rules for classifying in an explicit fashion. The reflexive system ope...
Cognitive control in bilinguals: Advantages in Stimulus-Stimulus inhibition [0.03%]
双语者认知控制能力研究：刺激-刺激抑制优势
Henrike K Blumenfeld,Viorica Marian
Henrike K Blumenfeld
Bilinguals have been shown to outperform monolinguals at suppressing task-irrelevant information and on overall speed during cognitive control tasks. Here, monolinguals' and bilinguals' performance was compared on two nonlinguistic tasks: a...