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Description:: Children acquire linguistic competence via social interactions with adults and learn to converse in accordance with the norms of their communities. The present dissertation examined the communicative patterns of Thai-English bilingual mothers and children in their two languages, as well as compared the bilinguals’ conversations to each of their monolingual...
Keyword:: parent-child interactions, narrative, bilingualism, cross-cultural, cross-linguistic, and language development
Subject:: Developmental psychology and Communication
Creator:: Rochanavibhata, Sirada
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 06/22/2022
Date Created:: 2022-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_900936 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16044

Description:: As monolinguals and bilinguals hear words unfold over time, they experience competition from words that share sounds within the same language (e.g., st- activates strict and stamp). Unique to bilinguals is that they are also prone to competition from similar sounding-words between their two languages. In the present dissertation, we...
Keyword:: speech perception, phonotactic constraints, bilingualism, and parallel language activation
Subject:: Communication Sciences and Disorders
Creator:: Max Ryan Freeman
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 11/19/2019
Date Modified:: 11/20/2019
Date Created:: 2018-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: Both the timing (i.e., ‘when’) and amount (i.e., ‘how much’) of language exposure have been shown to affect language-learning outcomes. Monolinguals and (most) bilinguals confound these two factors of early exposure and extended exposure (i.e., their first-acquired language is their most used or dominant language), making it difficult to isolate...
Keyword:: speech, bilingualism, frequency, linguistics, and vocabulary
Subject:: Linguistics
Creator:: Michael Blasingame
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 02/25/2019
Date Modified:: 02/25/2019
Date Created:: 2018-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Description:: The general goal of this dissertation research was to examine linguistic and cognitive mechanisms in foreign vocabulary learning within theoretical frameworks of working memory and connectionist word processing models. In Study 1, the effect of bimodal (auditory-and-visual) vs. unimodal (auditory-only) presentation on foreign word learning was examined at different levels...
Keyword:: working memory, bilingualism, word learning, connectionism, phonology, and bilingual advantage
Subject:: Communication Sciences and Disorders - Speech and Language Pathology
Creator:: Margarita Kaushanskaya
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Date Uploaded:: 06/27/2018
Date Modified:: 06/27/2018
Date Created:: 2007-05-11
Resource Type:: Dissertation

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