Do parents provide a helping hand to vocabulary development in bilingual children?
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DOI: 10.1017/s0305000918000594
Abstract: Abstract Monolingual children identify referents uniquely in gesture before they do so with words, and parents translate these gestures into words. Children benefit from these translations, acquiring the words that their parents translated earlier than… read more here.
Keywords: development bilingual; bilingual children; vocabulary development; monolingual children ... See more keywords
Comparison of language awareness in Kurdish-Persian bilingual children and Persian monolingual children
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DOI: 10.1080/21622965.2022.2029447
Abstract: Abstract The present study examines language awareness between bilinguals and monolingual children. Language awareness is a person's explicit understanding of language and its role in thinking, learning, and social life, which is associated with executive… read more here.
Keywords: executive functioning; monolingual children; language; language awareness ... See more keywords
Developing Abstract Representations of Passives: Evidence From Bilingual Children’s Interpretation of Passive Constructions
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DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.545360
Abstract: According to usage-based theories, children initially acquire surface-level constructions and then abstract representations. If so, bilingual children might show lags relative to monolingual children early in acquisition, but not later on, once they rely on… read more here.
Keywords: monolingual children; bilingual children; developing abstract; abstract representations ... See more keywords