Bilingual and Monolingual First Language Acquisition Experience Differentially Shapes Children’s Property Term Learning: Evidence from Behavioral and Neurophysiological Measures

Bilingual and Monolingual First Language Acquisition Experience Differentially Shapes Children’s Property Term Learning: Evidence from Behavioral and Neurophysiological Measures

Studies of novel noun learning show bilingual children rely less on the Mutual Exclusivity Constraint (MEC) for word learning than monolinguals. Shifting the focus to learning novel property terms (adjectives), the present study compared 3.5- and five-year-old bilingual and monolingual preschoolers&...

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Main Authors: Agnes Groba, Annick De Houwer, Hellmuth Obrig, Sonja Rossi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2019-02-01
Series:Brain Sciences
Subjects:
bilingual acquisition
monolingual acquisition
learning of property terms
adjectives
mutual exclusivity
whole object constraint
behavioral word learning task
fNIRS
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3425/9/2/40

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