Receptive Vocabulary Differences in Monolingual and Bilingual Adults

Autor/inn/en	Bialystok, Ellen; Luk, Gigi
Titel	Receptive Vocabulary Differences in Monolingual and Bilingual Adults
Quelle	In: Bilingualism: Language and Cognition, 15 (2012) 2, S.397-401 (5 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1366-7289
DOI	10.1017/S136672891100040X
Schlagwörter	Clinical Diagnosis; Monolingualism; Bilingualism; Receptive Language; Scores; Comparative Analysis; Older Adults; Young Adults; Vocabulary; Language Processing; English; Language Tests + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bilingualismus; Rezeptive Kommunikationsfähigkeit; Älterer Erwachsener; Young adult; Junger Erwachsener; Wortschatz; Sprachverarbeitung; English language; Englisch; Language test; Sprachtest
Abstract	English receptive vocabulary scores from 797 monolingual and 808 bilingual participants between the ages of 17 and 89 years old were aggregated from 20 studies to compare standard scores across language groups. The distribution of scores was unimodal for both groups but the mean score was significantly different, with monolinguals obtaining higher standard scores than bilinguals. Consistent with previous research, older adults had higher vocabulary scores than younger adults. The results are discussed in terms of the implications for theoretical conceptions of linguistic processing and clinical diagnosis in bilingual populations. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10