Parental expectations and home literacy environment: A questionnaire study of Chinese-Norwegian dual language learners

J Yang, JF Lawrence, V Grøver - Journal of Research in Childhood …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
This study examined how parental expectations were associated with Chinese-Norwegian
dual language learners' Chinese language skills. A total of 118 Chinese parents in Norway …

On the multidimensionality of bilingualism and the unique role of language use

P Kałamała, M Senderecka… - … : Language and Cognition, 2022 - cambridge.org
The multidimensionality of the bilingual experience makes the investigation of bilingualism
fascinating but also challenging. Although the literature distinguishes several aspects of …

Testing the validity of the Cross-Linguistic Lexical Task as a measure of language proficiency in bilingual children

E Van Wonderen, S Unsworth - Journal of Child Language, 2021 - cambridge.org
The Cross-linguistic Lexical Task (CLT; Haman, Łuniewska & Pomiechowska, 2015) is a
vocabulary task designed to enable cross-linguistic comparisons both across and within …

Age of acquisition of 299 words in seven languages: American English, Czech, Gaelic, Lebanese Arabic, Malay, Persian and Western Armenian

M Łuniewska, Z Wodniecka, CA Miller, F Smolík… - PloS one, 2019 - journals.plos.org
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 …

Polish-German preschoolers develop and use heritage Polish differently depending on whether they heard German from birth or not

A De Houwer - Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
This study assessed the language proficiency and use of a hitherto under-investigated
group, viz., 3.5-year-olds growing up with Polish as a heritage language and German as …

Polish norms for a set of colored drawings of 168 objects and 146 actions with predictors of naming performance

A Wolna, M Łuniewska, E Haman… - Behavior Research …, 2023 - Springer
In this study, we present the first database of pictures and their corresponding
psycholinguistic norms for Polish: the CLT database. In this norming study, we used the …

Word knowledge and lexical access in monolingual and bilingual migrant children: Impact of word properties

M Łuniewska, M Wójcik, J Kołak… - Language …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
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 …

Assessing children's proficiency in a minority language: Exploring the relationships between home language exposure, test performance and teacher and parent …

S Nic Fhlannchadha, TM Hickey - Language and education, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
There can be significant diversity in the language experience of minority language children,
and in the levels of proficiency reached. The declining numbers of children now exposed to …

Both L1 and L2 proficiency impact ToM reasoning in children aged 4 to 6. Painting a more nuanced picture of the relation between bilingualism and ToM

M Białecka, Z Wodniecka, K Muszyńska… - Bilingualism …, 2024 - cambridge.org
Previous studies that contrasting bilinguals with monolinguals on Theory of Mind (ToM) have
shown mixed results. We present a relatively large (N= 102) study comparing Polish …

Bilingual children do not transfer stress patterns: Evidence from suprasegmental and segmental analysis of L1 and L2 speech of Polish–English child bilinguals

D Zembrzuski, M Marecka… - International …, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Aims and objectives/purpose/research questions: The study examines bilingual children's
prosodic competence, specifically the ability to correctly assign word stress in both …