We report a systematic meta-analytic review of studies comparing reading comprehension
and its underlying components (language comprehension, decoding, and phonological …

Inhibitory control is thought to demonstrate heterotypic continuity, in other words, continuity
in its purpose or function but changes in its behavioral manifestation over time. This creates …

Purpose We examined the association of bilingual exposure with structural and pragmatic
language development in Chinese children with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs). Method …

Background Language and communication skills are essential aspects of child
development, which are often disrupted in children with neurodevelopmental disorders …

Children's pragmatic competence in deriving conversational implicatures (and scalar
implicatures in particular) offers an intriguing standpoint to explore how developmental …

The day–night task is a widely used measurement of interference control in young children
between ages 3 and 7. This integrative review examines the development of interference …

The well-documented advantage that bilingual speakers demonstrate across the lifespan on
measures of controlled attention is not observed in preschoolers' performance on Stroop …

Children growing up in a dual-language environment have to constantly monitor the
dynamic communicative context to determine what the speaker is trying to say and how to …

This study investigates the second language acquisition (L2A) of scalar implicatures (Grice,
1989; Horn, 1972), implicatures based on a range of quantifiers ordered in terms of …

The present study compares the performance of multilingual children speaking Cypriot
Greek, Standard Modern Greek, and English (and sometimes an additional language) …