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The Role of Cognates and Language Distance in Simultaneous Bilingual Children's Productive Vocabulary Acquisition

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Elly Koutamanis; Gerrit Jan Kootstra; Ton Dijkstra; Sharon Unsworth – Language Learning, 2025

This study examined the influence of cognate status and language distance on simultaneous bilingual children's vocabulary acquisition. It aimed to tease apart effects of word-level similarities and language-level similarities, while also exploring the role of individual-level variation in age, exposure, and nontarget language proficiency. Children…

Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Bilingual Education, Bilingualism