Diane Poulin?Dubois|Ellen Bialystok|Agnès Blaye|Alexandra Polonia|Jessica Yott
Lexical access and vocabulary development in very young bilinguals
Concordia University|York University|Laboratoire de Psychologie Cognitive|Concordia University
study compares lexical access expressive receptive vocabulary development monolingual bilingual toddlers specifically link vocabulary size production translation equivalents lexical access bilingual infants examined well relationship communicative development inventories computerized comprehension task twentyfive bilingual 18 monolingual infants aged 24 months participated study results revealed significant differences monolingual bilinguals expressive vocabulary size l1 similar total vocabularies performance computerized comprehension task revealed differences two groups measures reaction time accuracy strong convergent validity computerized comprehension task communicative development inventories observed groups bilinguals higher proportion translation equivalents expressive vocabulary showed faster access words computerized comprehension task