Ellen Bialystok|Gigi Luk|Kathleen F. Peets|Su?Jin Yang
Receptive vocabulary differences in monolingual and bilingual children
Baycrest Hospital|Baycrest Hospital|York University|Tyndale University College & Seminary|York University
studies often report bilingual participants possess smaller vocabulary language testing monolinguals especially research children however study based small sample difficult determine whether vocabulary difference due sampling error report results analysis 1738 children 3 10 years old demonstrate consistent difference receptive vocabulary two groups two preliminary analyses suggest difference change different language pairs largely confined words relevant home context rather school context