Bilson, Samuel, Yoshida, Hanako, Tran, Crystal D., Woods, Elizabeth A. and Hills, Thomas Trenholm (2015) Semantic facilitation in bilingual first language acquisition. Cognition, 140 . pp. 122-134. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2015.03.013 ISSN 0010-0277.
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Abstract
Bilingual first language learners face unique challenges that may influence the rate and order of early word learning relative to monolinguals. A comparison of the productive vocabularies of 435 children between the ages of 6 months and 7 years—181 of which were bilingual English learners—found that monolinguals learned both English words and all-language concepts faster than bilinguals. However, bilinguals showed an enhancement of an effect previously found in monolinguals—the preference for learning words with more associative cues. Though both monolinguals and bilinguals were best fit by a similar model of word learning, semantic network structure and growth indicated that the two groups were learning English words in a different order. Further, in comparison with a model of two-monolinguals-in-one-mind, bilinguals overproduced translational equivalents. Our results support an emergent account of bilingual first language acquisition, where learning a word in one language facilitates its acquisition in a second language.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Subjects: | P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Mathematics Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Psychology |
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Language acquisition, Bilingualism |
| Journal or Publication Title: | Cognition |
| Publisher: | Elsevier |
| ISSN: | 0010-0277 |
| Official Date: | July 2015 |
| Dates: | Date Event July 2015 Published 20 April 2015 Available 29 March 2015 Accepted 31 August 2014 Submitted |
| Volume: | 140 |
| Page Range: | pp. 122-134 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.cognition.2015.03.013 |
| Status: | Peer Reviewed |
| Publication Status: | Published |
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
| Funder: | National Institutes of Health (U.S.) (NIH), Foundation for Child Development, British Academy (BA) |
| Grant number: | 0R01HD058620 (NIH) |
| URI: | https://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/71015/ |
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