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Direct linkTsui, Angeline Sin Mei; Byers-Heinlein, Krista; Fennell, Christopher T. – Developmental Psychology, 2019
Associative word learning, the ability to pair a concept to a word, is an essential mechanism for early language development. One common method by which researchers measure this ability is the Switch task (Werker, Cohen, Lloyd, Casasola, & Stager, 1998), wherein infants are habituated to 2 word-object pairings and then tested on their ability…
Descriptors: Associative Learning, Vocabulary Development, Language Acquisition, Infants
Byers-Heinlein, Krista; Fennell, Christopher T.; Werker, Janet F. – Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 2013
Children growing up bilingual face a unique linguistic environment. The current study investigated whether early bilingual experience influences the developmental trajectory of associative word learning, a foundational mechanism for lexical acquisition. Monolingual and bilingual infants (N = 98) were tested on their ability to learn…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Bilingualism, Monolingualism, Infants
