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Relative Language Exposure, Processing Efficiency and Vocabulary in Spanish-English Bilingual Toddlers
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Hurtado, Nereyda; Gruter, Theres; Marchman, Virginia A.; Fernald, Anne – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2014
Research with monolingual children has shown that early efficiency in real-time word recognition predicts later language and cognitive outcomes. In parallel research with young bilingual children, processing ability and vocabulary size are closely related within each language, although not across the two languages. For children in dual-language…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Toddlers, Efficiency, Language Processing