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Karmiloff-Smith, Annette, Viorica Marian, Roberto Filippi, Michael S.C. Thomas, John Morris, Fiona M. Richardson and Peter Bright. 2015. Bilingual children show an advantage in controlling verbal interference during spoken language comprehension. Bilingualism 18 (3).

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

agent | bilingualism | language, comprehension of | spoken language | verbal action

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This paper compares 7–10 year old bi- and monolingual children's identification of the agent of active and passive English sentences in the presence of verbal interference. Bilinguals are more precise in understanding syntactically intricate sentences in the presence of linguistic noise. It is thus inferred that the bilingual benefit in interference control starts early and is conserved across development.