Journal
JOURNAL OF CHILD LANGUAGE
Volume 43, Issue 3, Pages 687-706Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S0305000915000811
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- National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) [R01 DC010366]
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This study evaluates the effects of Age of Exposure to English (AoEE) and Current Input/Output on language performance in a cross-sectional sample of Spanish-English bilingual children. First- (N = 586) and third-graders (N = 298) who spanned a wide range of bilingual language experience participated. Parents and teachers provided information about English and Spanish language use. Short tests of semantic and morphosyntactic development in Spanish and English were used to quantify children's knowledge of each language. There were significant interactions between AoEE and Current Input/Output for children at third grade in English and in both grades for Spanish. In English, the relationship between AoEE and language scores were linear for first- and third-graders. In Spanish a nonlinear relationship was observed. We discuss how much of the variance was accounted for by AoEE and Current Input/Output.
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