Virginia A. Marchman|Anne Fernald|Nereyda Hurtado
How vocabulary size in two languages relates to efficiency in spoken word recognition by young Spanish–English bilinguals
Stanford University|Stanford University|Stanford University
abstract research using online comprehension measures monolingual children shows speed accuracy spoken word recognition correlated lexical development examined speech processing efficiency relation vocabulary development bilingual children learning spanish english n 26 2 6 betweenlanguage associations weak vocabulary size spanish uncorrelated vocabulary english childrens facility online comprehension spanish unrelated facility english instead efficiency online processing one language significantly related vocabulary size language controlling processing speed vocabulary size language links efficiency lexical access vocabulary knowledge bilinguals parallel previously reported spanish english monolinguals suggesting childrens ability abstract information input building working lexicon relates fundamentally mechanisms underlying construction language