Patterns of language switching and bilingual children's word learning: An experiment across two communities.

ABSTRACT: Language switching is common in bilingual environments, including those of many bilingual children. Some bilingual children hear rapid switching that involves immediate translation of words (an 'immediate-translation' pattern), while others hear their languages most often in long blocks of a single language (a 'one-language-at-a-time' pattern). Our two-site experimental study compared two groups of developing bilinguals from different communities, and investigated whether differences in the timing of language switching impose different demands on bilingual children's learning of novel nouns in their two languages: do children learn differently if they hear a translation immediately vs. if they hear translations more separated in time? Using an at-home online tablet word learn

SUBMITTER: Tsui RK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10883668 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature