Cassandra Foursha-Stevenson
Biographic Data
| ID | 218487 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cassandra Foursha-Stevenson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cassandra |
| FAMILY NAME | Foursha-Stevenson |
| SIGNATURE | FOURSHA-STEVENSON C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Mount Royal University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Multilingualism inside and outside the family
In a highly globalised and multilingual world, acquiring another language is an avenue to increasing one’s economic and social opportunities. Based on these benefits, people may form positive attitudes towards multilingualism that shape the linguistic upbringing of their children. Multiple studies have identified individual factors that influence attitudes towards multilingualism, yet its influence on attitudes towards family multilingualism rema…
The Influence of Child-Directed Speech on Word Learning and Comprehension
Discourse relativity in Russian-English bilingual preschoolers’ classification of objects by gender
Aims and objectives/purpose/research questions: We tested whether structural relativity (i.e. the grammatical gender of words in Russian) or discourse relativity (e.g. the language spoken, cultural attitudes toward objects) would influence preschool Russian–English bilingual children’s classification of toys as boys or girls. Design/methodology/approach: We asked 20 Russian–English bilingual children to classify toys as either boys or girls, once…
Language and Culture Effects on Gender Classification of Objects
The present studies test whether French grammatical gender affects bilingual children's classification of objects as boys or girls in English, in children aged 3 to 5 years (Study 1) and aged 8 to 10 years (Study 2), compared to monolingual children to control for possible cultural biases. In both studies, children tended to classify more objects as boys than as girls. In Study 1, the bilingual children showed a reduced boy bias relative to monol…
Early emergence of syntactic awareness and cross-linguistic influence in bilingual children’s judgments
Bilingual children sometimes perform better than same-aged monolingual children on metalinguistic awareness tasks, such as a grammaticality judgment. Some of these differences can be attributed to bilinguals having to learn to control attention to language choice. This study tested the hypothesis that bilingual children, as young as preschool age, would score overall higher than monolingual children on a grammaticality judgment test. French–Engli…
Thinking for speaking and cross-linguistic transfer in preschool bilingual children
Bilingual children sometimes produce constructions influenced by their other language (cross-linguistic transfer). Transfer can often be predicted by the existence of overlapping and ambiguous constructions in both languages. In this paper, we investigate whether cross-linguistic transfer occurs when overlapping constructions exist, but there are cross-linguistic differences in conceptualization between languages. In Study 1, French–English bilin…
Language and Culture Effects on Gender Classification of Objects
The present studies test whether French grammatical gender affects bilingual children's classification of objects as boys or girls in English, in children aged 3 to 5 years (Study 1) and aged 8 to 10 years (Study 2), compared to monolingual children to control for possible cultural biases. In both studies, children tended to classify more objects as boys than as girls. In Study 1, the bilingual children showed a reduced boy bias relative to monol…
The Influence of Child-Directed Speech on Word Learning and Comprehension
Thinking for speaking and cross-linguistic transfer in preschool bilingual children
Bilingual children sometimes produce constructions influenced by their other language (cross-linguistic transfer). Transfer can often be predicted by the existence of overlapping and ambiguous constructions in both languages. In this paper, we investigate whether cross-linguistic transfer occurs when overlapping constructions exist, but there are cross-linguistic differences in conceptualization between languages. In Study 1, French–English bilin…
Early emergence of syntactic awareness and cross-linguistic influence in bilingual children’s judgments
Bilingual children sometimes perform better than same-aged monolingual children on metalinguistic awareness tasks, such as a grammaticality judgment. Some of these differences can be attributed to bilinguals having to learn to control attention to language choice. This study tested the hypothesis that bilingual children, as young as preschool age, would score overall higher than monolingual children on a grammaticality judgment test. French–Engli…
Language and Culture Effects on Gender Classification of Objects
The present studies test whether French grammatical gender affects bilingual children's classification of objects as boys or girls in English, in children aged 3 to 5 years (Study 1) and aged 8 to 10 years (Study 2), compared to monolingual children to control for possible cultural biases. In both studies, children tended to classify more objects as boys than as girls. In Study 1, the bilingual children showed a reduced boy bias relative to monol…
Discourse relativity in Russian-English bilingual preschoolers’ classification of objects by gender
Aims and objectives/purpose/research questions: We tested whether structural relativity (i.e. the grammatical gender of words in Russian) or discourse relativity (e.g. the language spoken, cultural attitudes toward objects) would influence preschool Russian–English bilingual children’s classification of toys as boys or girls. Design/methodology/approach: We asked 20 Russian–English bilingual children to classify toys as either boys or girls, once…
The Influence of Child-Directed Speech on Word Learning and Comprehension
Multilingualism inside and outside the family
In a highly globalised and multilingual world, acquiring another language is an avenue to increasing one’s economic and social opportunities. Based on these benefits, people may form positive attitudes towards multilingualism that shape the linguistic upbringing of their children. Multiple studies have identified individual factors that influence attitudes towards multilingualism, yet its influence on attitudes towards family multilingualism rema…
Linguistics (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Neuroscience of multilingualism (4 works) · Categorization, perception, and language (3 works) · Language Development and Disorders (3 works) · Cognition (2 works) · Developmental psychology (2 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (2 works) · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism (2 works) · Noun (2 works)