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| Title | Authors | PubMed ID | |
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| 1 | Bilingual children s comprehension of code-switching at an uninformative adjective | Kremin LV; Jardak A; Lew-Williams C; Byers-Heinlein K; | 41821919 CONCORDIA |
| 2 | A year of nouns from English-learning infants daily lives: The SEEDLingS-Nouns dataset | Kalenkovich E; Koorathota S; Tor S; Amatuni A; Egan-Dailey S; Moore C; Laing C; Garrison H; Baudet G; Bulgarelli F; Uner S; Righter L; Bergelson E; | 41034519 CONCORDIA |
| 3 | Bilingual Language Development in Infancy: What Can We Do to Support Bilingual Families? | Fibla L; Kosie JE; Kircher R; Lew-Williams C; Byers-Heinlein K; | 35224184 CONCORDIA |
| 4 | Earlier age of second language learning induces more robust speech encoding in the auditory brainstem in adults, independent of amount of language exposure during early childhood | Giroud N; Baum SR; Gilbert AC; Phillips NA; Gracco V; | 32535187 CRDH |
| Title: | Bilingual children s comprehension of code-switching at an uninformative adjective | ||||
| Authors: | Kremin LV, Jardak A, Lew-Williams C, Byers-Heinlein K | ||||
| Link: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41821919/ | ||||
| DOI: | 10.34842/zyvj-cv60 | ||||
| Publication: | Language development research | ||||
| Keywords: | bilingualism; code-switching; language acquisition; language processing; | ||||
| PMID: | 41821919 | Category: | Date Added: | 2026-03-13 | |
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1 Concordia University, 7141 Sherbrooke St. West, PY-033, Montréal, QC, H4B 1R6, Canada. 2 Princeton University, 216 Peretsman Scully Hall, Princeton, NJ, 08540, USA. |
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Bilingual children regularly hear sentences that contain words from both languages, also known as code-switching. Investigating how bilinguals process code-switching is a crucial component in understanding bilingual language acquisition, because young bilinguals experience processing costs and reduced comprehension when encountering code-switched nouns. Studies have yet to investigate if processing costs are present when children encounter code-switches at other parts of speech within a sentence. The current study examined how 30 young bilinguals (age range: 37 - 48 months) processed sentences with code-switches at an uninformative determiner-adjective pair before the target noun (e.g., "Can you find le bon [the good] duck?) compared to single-language sentences (e.g., "Can you find the good duck?"). Surprisingly, bilingual children accurately identified the target object in both sentence types, contrasting with previous findings that sentences containing code-switching lead to processing difficulties. We conclude that the functional information conveyed by a code-switch may contribute to bilingual children's sentence processing. |
