Author(s): Sander-Montant A; López Pérez M; Byers-Heinlein K;

Children have an early ability to learn and comprehend words, a skill that develops as they age. A critical question remains regarding what drives this development. Maturation-based theories emphasise cognitive maturity as a driver of comprehension, while a ...

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Author(s): Tsui RK; Gonzalez-Barrero AM; Schott E; Byers-Heinlein K;

The acquisition of translation equivalents is often considered a special component of bilingual children's vocabulary development, as bilinguals have to learn words that share the same meaning across their two languages. This study examined three contra ...

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Author(s): Byers-Heinlein K; Jardak A; Fourakis E; Lew-Williams C;

Language mixing is common in bilingual children's learning environments. Here, we investigated effects of language mixing on children's learning of new words. We tested two groups of 3-year-old bilinguals: French-English (Experiment 1) and Spanish-E ...

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Author(s): Schott E; Mastroberardino M; Fourakis E; Lew-Williams C; Byers-Heinlein K;

The ability to differentiate between two languages sets the stage for bilingual learning. Infants can discriminate languages when hearing long passages, but language switches often occur on short time scales with few cues to language identity. As bilingual ...

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Author(s): Benitez VL, Bulgarelli F, Byers-Heinlein K, Saffran JR, Weiss DJ

Dev Sci. 2020 03;23(2):e12896 Authors: Benitez VL, Bulgarelli F, Byers-Heinlein K, Saffran JR, Weiss DJ

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Author(s): Ruel A, Chiarella SS, Crivello C, Poulin-Dubois D

J Autism Dev Disord. 2020 Feb 04;: Authors: Ruel A, Chiarella SS, Crivello C, Poulin-Dubois D

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