Language skills play a vital role in academic achievement and support reading and writing
acquisition. Language skills also enable children to interact with others and develop social …

This study examined the influence of cognate status and language distance on
simultaneous bilingual children's vocabulary acquisition. It aimed to tease apart effects of …

The Cross-linguistic Lexical Task (CLT; Haman, Łuniewska & Pomiechowska, 2015) is a
vocabulary task designed to enable cross-linguistic comparisons both across and within …

Preschool vocabulary interventions have reported modest increases in learning of target
words, with wide variability among participants. To design interventions that are effective for …

We present a new set of subjective Age of Acquisition (AoA) ratings for 299 words (158
nouns, 141 verbs) in seven languages from various language families and cultural settings …

Developing young children's vocabulary is essential for later reading success; thus, early
childhood classrooms require a comprehensive vocabulary approach that teaches …

Abstract Öztekin, B. 2019. Typical and atypical language development in Turkish-Swedish
bilingual children aged 4–7. Studia Linguistica Upsaliensia 25. 350 pp. Uppsala: Acta …

Previous studies show mixed findings concerning whether higher-order story structure
(macrostructure) is similar across bilinguals' two languages. It is not known how …

Word knowledge and the speed of word processing in monolingual children and adults are
influenced by word properties, such as the age of acquisition (AoA), imageability, and …

In vocabulary research, factors affecting second/foreign language (L2) receptive vocabulary
have been investigated extensively. However, few studies have examined factors affecting …