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Frid, Bailey; Friesen, Deanna C. – Canadian Modern Language Review, 2021
The current research study investigated the patterns of reading strategies employed by English/French bilingual adults and children in both languages. An in-depth analysis of patterns of strategy use was conducted on a subset of skilled readers and poor readers from previous data sets. Think-aloud data on short passages revealed that, overall,…
Descriptors: Reading Strategies, Reading Skills, Behavior Patterns, Bilingualism
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Na Gao; Peng Zhou; Stephen Crain – Language Acquisition: A Journal of Developmental Linguistics, 2025
This study investigates how speakers of Mandarin interpret negative sentences with the conjunction ("he" 'and'). Our experiments test three predictions that follow from the proposal that the Mandarin conjunction is a positive polarity item (PPI) for both children and adults. On this account, the Mandarin conjunction should be interpreted…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Prediction, Form Classes (Languages), Phrase Structure