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Publication details [#65586]

Poulin-Dubois, Diane, Jacqueline Legacy, Pascal Zesiger, Margaret Friend and Olivia Kuzyk. 2018. Translation equivalents facilitate lexical access in very young bilinguals. Bilingualism 21 (4) : 856–866.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingualism | communication | comprehension | toddler | translation

Language as a subject

English | French

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This inquiry explored the affect of translation equivalents (TE) on lexical processing in a specimen of 36 French–English bilingual toddlers at 22-months of age. The results state that the translation easing effects revealed in adult bilinguals are also present in bilingual toddlers.