A pervasive goal in the study of how children learn word meanings is to explain how young
children solve the mapping problem. The mapping problem asks how language learners …

In this review, we evaluate the claim that translanguaging in the classroom supports the
development of the bilingual lexicon by enhancing cross-linguistic transfer. To address this …

Bilingual environments present an important context for word learning. One feature of
bilingual environments is the existence of translation equivalents (TEs)—words in different …

Purpose: Despite the increasing population of dual language learners (DLLs) in the United
States, vocabulary measures for young DLLs have largely relied on instruments developed …

Introduction: Research in recent years has explored the vocabulary size (lexical breadth) of
bilingual children, but less is known about the richness of bilingual word knowledge (lexical …

Bilinguals need to learn two words for most concepts. These words are called translation
equivalents, and those that also sound similar (eg, banana–banane) are called cognates …

ABSTRACT Children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) show a wide range of
impairments, including poor pre-reading skills and decoding difficulties due to phonological …

Purpose: This article aims to describe how exemplar variability can manipulate the word
learning environment to maximize within-and cross-language generalization in Spanish …

It is debatable whether bilingual children can distinguish between their two languages from
an early age. This study aims to describe how a bilingual infant differentiates between her …