The role of phonological structure and experience in bilingual children's nonword repetition performance

• Autores: Todd A. Gibson, Connie Summers, Elizabeth D. Pena, Lisa M. Bedore, Ronald B. Gillam, Thomas M. Bohman
• Localización: Bilingualism: Language and cognition, ISSN 1366-7289, Vol. 18, Nº 3, 2015, págs. 551-560
• Idioma: inglés
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  • The current study examined the influence of phonological structure and language experience on the nonword repetition performance of bilingual children. Twenty-six Spanish-dominant and 26 English-dominant Spanish-English bilingual five-year-old children were matched on current exposure to the dominant language and year of first exposure to English. Participants repeated non-wordlike nonwords in English and Spanish. The Spanish-dominant group performed better than the English-dominant group for both Spanish and English nonwords. In addition, there was a main effect for test language, where Spanish nonwords were produced more accurately than English nonwords overall. The Spanish-dominant group advantage for nonwords is interpreted as emerging from the extra practice the dominant Spanish speakers had producing multisyllabic words.