Ward, Rebecca Sanoudaki, Eirini
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Child neuropsychology : a journal on normal and abnormal development in childhood and adolescence
Continuous approaches to measuring bilingualism have recently emerged as a means of understanding individual variation in language abilities. To date, limited information is available to assist in understanding the language abilities of bilingual children with Down syndrome (DS), who are specifically known to have a large variation in linguistic ou...
Cheng, Shuxia Wu, Zhaohong
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Frontiers in Psychology
Yang, Siqin Jiang, Siyi Jiang, Minghu Guo, Qian
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Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
Numerous studies have demonstrated that second language (L2) comprehension is often accompanied by activations in the first language (L1). Using both behavioral measurement and event-related potential (ERP), this study conducted two experiments to investigate whether a direct activation pathway exists from L2 lexical representation to L1 lexical re...
Yang, Tengji Yang, Ying
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Frontiers in Psychology
Mandarin qián and English forward are semantically equivalent in the domain of Space, but could be semantically opposite in the domain of Time. In other words, equivalent spatial lexical items could convey opposite temporal concepts. What temporal concepts conveyed by qián and forward would be retrieved by Mandarin–English (M–E) bilinguals with dif...
Kan, Pui Fong Yim, Dongsun Brennan, Christine
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Frontiers in Language Sciences
This study investigates the semantic development of heritage bilingual preschool children aged 3 to 5 who acquire Cantonese as their heritage language (HL) at home and English as their community language (L2) in school settings. The research examines how bilingual children organize and access their vocabulary in two distinct languages and how their...
Liu, Sha Takeda, Kaye
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Folia Linguistica
This paper compares bilinguals of 2L1s with monolinguals and second language speakers. The experiment and statistical analysis reveals that the question whether bilinguals adopt a more extreme, intermediate, or monolingual-like approach may not have a clear-cut yes or no answer. Our finding demonstrates that bilinguals are more monolingual-like whe...
Martinez, Sabrina Nouryan, Christian N. Williams, Myia S. Patel, Vidhi H. Barbero, Paulina Correa Gomez, Valeria Marino, Jose Goris, Nicole Cigaran, Edgardo Granville, Dilcia
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Frontiers in Clinical Diabetes and Healthcare
Background The Hispanic/Latino population has greater risk (estimated >50%) of developing type 2 diabetes (T2D) and developing it at a younger age. The American Diabetes Association estimates costs of diagnosed diabetes in 2017 was $327 billion; with medical costs 2.3x higher than patients without diabetes. The purpose of this manuscript is to desc...
Park, Juana Gagné, Christina L. Spalding, Thomas L.
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Frontiers in Psychology
We investigated whether writing direction and language activation influence how bilingual speakers map time onto space. More specifically, we investigated how Arabic-English bilingual speakers conceived where (e.g., on the left or on the right) different time periods (e.g., past, present, future) were located, depending on whether they were tested ...
Harris, Bryn Kulkarni, Tara Sullivan, Amanda L
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Journal of learning disabilities
The identification of specific learning disabilities (SLD) remains fraught with controversy and uncertainty about professionals' capacity to appropriately identify special education eligibility. For students from linguistically minoritized backgrounds, the exclusionary clause prohibits the identification of learning difficulties primarily attributa...
Ramos, Michelle Nichols
Accurately identifying developmental language disorder (DLD) in students who speak a home language other than English has proven to be an enduring challenge. Consequently, students with DLD miss out on critical interventions, and those who are acquiring their two languages in a typical manner are placed in settings that do not meet their educationa...
