How many moderators does it take till we know… that too many bilingual advantage effects have died?

J Festman, S Czapka, A Winsler - Understanding variability in …, 2022 - taylorfrancis.com
The debate concerning a potential bilingual cognitive advantage is ongoing but has turned
to focus on understanding factors modulating the appearance of bilingual effects. The …

Influences of bilingualism and developmental language disorder on how children learn and process words.

L Barak, T Degani, R Novogrodsky - Developmental Psychology, 2022 - psycnet.apa.org
Previous studies found that bilingual children and adults with typical language development
(TLD) perform better than monolinguals in novel word learning, but show lower scores on …

The effects of bilingualism on children's cross-situational word learning under different variability conditions

K Crespo, H Vlach, M Kaushanskaya - Journal of experimental child …, 2023 - Elsevier
In the current study, we examined the separate and combined effects of exemplar and
speaker variability on monolingual and bilingual children's cross-situational word learning …

Vocabulary limitations undermine bilingual children's reading comprehension despite bilingual cognitive strengths

S Babayiğit, GJ Hitch, S Kandru-Pothineni, A Clarke… - Reading and …, 2022 - Springer
Previous research reported bilingual cognitive strengths in working memory, executive
function and novel-word learning skills (Bialystok in Psychol Bull 143: 233–262, 2017; …

Spoken word learning differences among children with dyslexia, concomitant dyslexia and developmental language disorder, and typical development

M Alt, S Gray, TP Hogan, N Schlesinger… - Language, speech, and …, 2019 - ASHA
Purpose The purpose of our study was to test the hypotheses (a) that children with dyslexia
have spoken word learning deficits primarily related to phonology and (b) that children with …

Is oral bilingualism an advantage for word learning in children with hearing loss?

B Diego-Lázaro, A Pittman, MA Restrepo - Journal of speech, language, and …, 2021 - ASHA
Purpose The purpose of this study was to examine whether oral bilingualism could be an
advantage for children with hearing loss when learning new words. Method Twenty …

Spot It and Learn It! Word Learning in Virtual Peer‐Group Interactions Using a Novel Paradigm for School‐Aged Children

H Levy, A Hanulíková - Language Learning, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
We use a novel paradigm to examine the effect of language exposure and variable input on
the acquisition of words in primary school–aged children. Children growing up with different …

Executive function skills account for a bilingual advantage in English novel word learning among low-income preschoolers

R Huang, ER Baker, JM Schneider - Journal of Experimental Child …, 2023 - Elsevier
The current study compared economically disadvantaged bilingual and monolingual
preschoolers' performance on an English novel word learning task and examined whether …

The structure of word learning in young school-age children

S Gray, H Lancaster, M Alt, TP Hogan, S Green… - Journal of Speech …, 2020 - ASHA
Purpose We investigated four theoretically based latent variable models of word learning in
young school-age children. Method One hundred sixty-seven English-speaking second …

Dynamic assessment of word learning to diagnose developmental language disorder in French-speaking monolingual and bilingual children

M Matrat, H Delage, M Kehoe - Languages, 2022 - mdpi.com
Dynamic assessment (DA), which evaluates the learning process rather than static
knowledge, has been found to be effective in diagnosing developmental language disorder …