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Publication details [#65558]

Houwer, Annick De, Agnes Groba, Jan Mehnert, Sonja Rossi and Hellmuth Obrig. 2018. Bilingual and monolingual children process pragmatic cues differently when learning novel adjectives. Bilingualism 21 (2) : 384–402.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

adjective | bilingualism | child | monolingualism | pragmatics

Language as a subject

German | Spanish

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This assay proposed a pragmatic cue helping new adjective acquisition amid 32 Spanish–German bilingual (B) and 28 German monolingual (M) 5-year-olds. B and M children render pragmatic cues otherwise when acquiring new adjectives. The outcome helps the leading role of the superior temporal sulcus (STS) in processing pragmatic gestures and presents raised pragmatic sensitivity for bilingual children.