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Cao, Fan; Yan, Xiaohui; Yan, Xin; Zhou, Haiyan; Booth, James R. – Child Development, 2021
To examine whether there are common or specific deficits of reading disability (RD) in first (L1) and second languages (L2), Chinese children (9-11 years, N = 76) with or without RD who learn English as an L2 were studied during a visual word rhyming judgment task. Evidence was found for common deficits in L1 and L2 in visuo-orthographic processes…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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Hay, Jessica F.; Graf Estes, Katharine; Wang, Tianlin; Saffran, Jenny R. – Child Development, 2015
Infants must develop both flexibility and constraint in their interpretation of acceptable word forms. The current experiments examined the development of infants' lexical interpretation of non-native variations in pitch contour. Fourteen-, 17-, and 19-month-olds (Experiments 1 and 2, N = 72) heard labels for two novel objects; labels…
Descriptors: Infants, Intonation, Auditory Perception, Suprasegmentals