Bilingualism and Cognitive-Linguistic Development: Evidence from a Word Association Task and a Sorting Task.

Appel, Rene

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Bilingualism and Cognitive-Linguistic Development: Evidence from a Word Association Task and a Sorting Task.

Appel, Rene

Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, v10 n3 p183-96 1989

Analysis of the responses of monolingual Dutch and bilingual Turkish, Moroccan, and Surinamese children living in the Netherlands to word association and sorting tasks revealed no significant differences among the groups. Results of the study indicated that bilingualism does not affect cognitive-linguistic development. (22 references) (Author/VWL)

Descriptors: Associative Learning, Berber Languages, Bilingualism, Child Language, Cognitive Development, Dutch, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, Language Acquisition, Second Language Learning, Semantics, Task Analysis, Turkish, Uncommonly Taught Languages

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