Language dominance and multilingual word learning
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20506141 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Beatriz de Diego-Lázaro (0000-0003-4309-6308, Midwestern University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Pages | 2543-2560 |
| Publication date | 2022-08-09 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1367-0050 • E-ISSN: 1747-7522 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13670050.2021.1933892 |
| OpenAlex | W3169756647 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 66 |
Studies on multilingual word learning have focused on identifying a bilingual advantage over monolingual peers, paying little attention to the relationships between bilinguals’ existing vocabulary size and novel word learning. This study compared monolingual and bilingual school-age children on word learning tasks in familiar and unfamiliar languages and examined the relationships between bilingual vocabulary and multilingual word learning. The results showed no significant differences between monolingual and bilingual children in any of the word learning tasks. In addition, the results suggested that bilingual children use vocabulary in the languages they know in a specific way; whereas vocabulary in the dominant language seems to have a facilitative role for word learning in any language (language-dominant pattern), vocabulary in the non-dominant language is used only when learning new words in that particular language (language-dependent pattern)
First language · Language acquisition · Linguistics · Mathematics education · Neuroscience of multilingualism · Vocabulary · Vocabulary development · Vocabulary Learning · Word learning · Computer Science · Language Development and Disorders · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism · Psychology · Reading and Literacy Development
Probabilistic Phonotactics and Neighborhood Activation in Spoken Word Recognition
The bilingual advantage in novel word learning
Children's use of mutual exclusivity to constrain the meanings of words
Speed of word recognition and vocabulary knowledge in infancy predict cognitive and language outcomes in later childhood
The measure matters
Bilingualism is not a categorical variable
Direct and indirect effects of multilingualism on novel language learning
How Children Use Input to Acquire a Lexicon
The Language Experience and Proficiency Questionnaire (Leap-Q)
Early understanding of two words for the same thing
The Influence of Dominance and Sociolinguistic Context on Bilingual Preschoolers' Language Choice
Language mixing in young bilinguals
Fast mapping by bilingual preschool children
How vocabulary size in two languages relates to efficiency in spoken word recognition by young Spanish–English bilinguals
Monolingual and bilingual children's use of the mutual exclusivity constraint
The acquisition and development of language by bilingual children
How social contexts support and shape language development☆
Language Experience Shapes the Development of the Mutual Exclusivity Bias
Evidence of Early Language Discrimination Abilities in Infants From Bilingual Environments
What Defines Language Dominance in Bilinguals
Phonological short-term memory and new word learning in children
Lexical and semantic representations in the acquisition of L2 cognate and non-cognate words
Bilinguals' Existing Languages Benefit Vocabulary Learning in a Third Language
| Citations per year | 1 |
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| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |