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Publication details [#65511]

Taha, Haitham, Mila Schwartz, Zohar Eviatar and Vikki Cohen. 2018. Word learning by young sequential bilinguals: Fast mapping in Arabic and Hebrew. Applied Psycholinguistics 39 (3) : 649–674.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingual acquisition | diglossia | kindergarten | multilingualism | vocabulary growth

Language as a subject

Arabic | Hebrew

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This study explored word acquisition by children attending bilingual Hebrew–Arabic kindergartens on a fast mapping task. These early sequential bilinguals covered those with Hebrew and those with Arabic as their home languages. Fast mapping is honed by multilingual experience, and can be sensitive to sociolinguistic facets like diglossia.