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dc.contributor.authorKalashnikova, Marina
dc.contributor.authorOliveri, Aimee
dc.contributor.authorMattock, Karen
dc.date.accessioned2019-10-08T06:56:51Z
dc.date.available2019-10-08T06:56:51Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.identifier.citationKalashnikova, M., Oliveri, A., & Mattock, K. (2019). Acceptance of lexical overlap by monolingual and bilingual toddlers. International Journal of Bilingualism, 23(6), 1517–1530. https://doi.org/10.1177/1367006918808041es_ES
dc.identifier.issn1367-0069
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10810/35643
dc.descriptionArticle first published online: October 31, 2018es_ES
dc.description.abstractAims and Objectives: Mutual exclusivity refers to children’s assumption that there are oneto-one correspondences between words and their referents. It is proposed to guide the process of fast-mapping when children encounter novel words in referentially ambiguous situations. However, children are often required to suspend this default assumption and accept lexically overlapping labels, which is particularly common for bilingual children who learn multiple labels for most referents in their environment. Previous research has shown that school-aged bilinguals are more successful at learning overlapping labels than monolinguals, but the mechanisms underlying the development of this word-learning ability remain unknown. Methodology: This study investigated the ability to accept lexical overlap in monolingual and bilingual two-and-a-half-year-old children and its relation to children’s lexical competence. Children’s ability to retain two novel labels assigned to a novel referent was assessed in an interactive lexical overlap paradigm. In addition, parental inventories were used to measure children’s receptive vocabulary size and patterns of language exposure and use. Data and analysis: Data were collected from 68 (34 monolingual and 34 bilingual) children between 26 and 34 months of age. Binomial logistic regressions were used to assess the effects of children’s language background and their individual lexical competence (receptive vocabulary for monolinguals and bilinguals, and conceptual vocabulary size and degree of bilingualism for bilinguals). Findings: Results showed that vocabulary size was a significant predictor of lexical overlap performance for monolingual children, but this was not the case for bilinguals.es_ES
dc.description.sponsorshipThe author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This work was supported by Western Sydney University Researcher Development Funding (Women’s Research Fellowship) on behalf of the first author.es_ES
dc.language.isoenges_ES
dc.publisherInternational Journal of Bilingualismes_ES
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesses_ES
dc.subjectMutual exclusivityes_ES
dc.subjectlexical overlapes_ES
dc.subjectbilingualismes_ES
dc.subjectword learninges_ES
dc.subjectlexicones_ES
dc.titleAcceptance of lexical overlap by monolingual and bilingual toddlerses_ES
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/articlees_ES
dc.rights.holderCopyright © 2019 by SAGE Publicationses_ES
dc.relation.publisherversionhttps://journals.sagepub.com/home/ijbes_ES
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/1367006918808041


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