Bilingualism accentuates children's conversational understanding.

BACKGROUND: Although bilingualism is prevalent throughout the world, little is known about the extent to which it influences children's conversational understanding. Our investigation involved children aged 3-6 years exposed to one or more of four major languages: English, German, Italian, and...

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Main Authors: Michael Siegal, Luca Surian, Ayumi Matsuo, Alessandra Geraci, Laura Iozzi, Yuko Okumura, Shoji Itakura
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2815776?pdf=render