Combining Languages in Bilingual Input: Using Experimental Evidence to Formulate Bilingual Exposure Strategies

CONCLUSIONS: Together, experimental studies of word learning indicate that bilingual children can effectively learn from dual-language input but that different ways of combining languages in the input to bilingual children can have distinct consequences for learning. Ultimately, word-learning experiments, beyond answering critical questions regarding bilingual learning, can serve as an effective bridge between laboratory-based work and intervention studies whose goal it is to discover the optimal way of combining languages in the input to bilingual children with communication impairments. Presentation Video: https://doi.org/10.23641/asha.23929515.PMID:37732839 | DOI:10.1044/2023_JSLHR-23-00181
Source: Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR - Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Source Type: research