Book Review: Language Processing of Bilingual Children

1997 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 16-18
Author(s):  
Alejandro Brice
Keyword(s):  
Language Processing ◽  
Bilingual Children

Book review: Medical Language Processing

1988 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jon L. Schlossberg
Keyword(s):  
Language Processing ◽  
Medical Language ◽  
Medical Language Processing

scholarly journals Monolingual and bilingual children's processing of coarticulation cues during spoken word recognition

2020 ◽  
Vol 47 (6) ◽  
pp. 1189-1206
Author(s):  
Félix DESMEULES-TRUDEL ◽  
Charlotte MOORE ◽  
Tania S. ZAMUNER
Keyword(s):  
Word Recognition ◽  
Eye Tracking ◽  
Old English ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Spoken Word Recognition ◽  
Spoken Word ◽  
Bilingual Children ◽  
Phonetic Cues ◽  
Vowel Nasalization ◽  
English Monolingual

AbstractBilingual children cope with a significant amount of phonetic variability when processing speech, and must learn to weigh phonetic cues differently depending on the cues’ respective roles in their two languages. For example, vowel nasalization is coarticulatory and contrastive in French, but coarticulatory-only in English. In this study, we extended an investigation of the processing of coarticulation in two- to three-year-old English monolingual children (Zamuner, Moore & Desmeules-Trudel, 2016) to a group of four- to six-year-old English monolingual children and age-matched English–French bilingual children. Using eye tracking, we found that older monolingual children and age-matched bilingual children showed more sensitivity to coarticulation cues than the younger children. Moreover, when comparing the older monolinguals and bilinguals, we found no statistical differences between the two groups. These results offer support for the specification of coarticulation in word representations, and indicate that, in some cases, bilingual children possess language processing skills similar to monolinguals.

Cognitive Control along the Language Spectrum: From the Typical Bilingual Child to Language Impairment

2019 ◽  
Vol 40 (04) ◽  
pp. 256-271
Author(s):  
Klara Marton ◽  
Thorfun Gehebe ◽  
Lia Pazuelo
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Control ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Language Impairment ◽  
Cognitive Skills ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Bilingual Children ◽  
Interference Control ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Control Functions ◽  
Language Deficit

AbstractCognitive control refers to the ability to perform goal-directed behaviors in the presence of other compelling actions or in the face of habitual practices. Cognitive control functions play a critical role in children's language processing and literacy development. In recent years, many clinicians have expanded their assessment and treatment to target specific cognitive skills. Our goal is to provide a review of recent findings on cognitive control functions in children with different language status (i.e., monolingual and bilingual children with and without language impairment). While children with language impairment show performance deficits in specific cognitive functions (e.g., working memory updating and interference control), typically developing bilingual children often outperform their monolingual peers in cognitive control tasks. However, the relationship between bilingualism and cognitive control has been controversial. Several factors that influence these variations are discussed. Given the findings on the joint impact of bilingualism and language impairment on cognitive control functions, we identify conditions in which bilingualism attenuates the negative effects of the language deficit and conditions in which language impairment has a stronger effect than bilingualism. Critical issues of bilingual assessment, suggestions, and future directions are discussed.

Analyzing language samples of Spanish–English bilingual children for the automated prediction of language dominance

2010 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 367-395 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. SOLORIO ◽  
M. SHERMAN ◽  
Y. LIU ◽  
L. M. BEDORE ◽  
E. D. PEÑA ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Natural Language Processing ◽  
Natural Language ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Communication Disorders ◽  
Bilingual Children ◽  
Syntactic Complexity ◽  
Language Dominance ◽  
English Bilingual ◽  
Discriminative Value ◽  
Language Profiles

AbstractIn this work we study how features typically used in natural language processing tasks, together with measures from syntactic complexity, can be adapted to the problem of developing language profiles of bilingual children. Our experiments show that these features can provide high discriminative value for predicting language dominance from story retells in a Spanish–English bilingual population of children. Moreover, some of our proposed features are even more powerful than measures commonly used by clinical researchers and practitioners for analyzing spontaneous language samples of children. This study shows that the field of natural language processing has the potential to make significant contributions to communication disorders and related areas.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document