A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF MONOLINGUALS AND BILINGUALS IN A VERBAL TASK PERFORMANCE.

The article informs that studying the effects of bilingualism on language acquisition and development, reported that bilinguals' abstract ability was severely limited, with resulting paucity of vocabulary and word-concept retardation. The present investigation compared monolinguals and bilinguals on...

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Publicado en:Journal of Clinical Psychology Vol. 17; no. 1; pp. 49 - 53
Autores principales: Lerea, Louis, Kohut, Suzanne
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell Jan1961
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Sumario:The article informs that studying the effects of bilingualism on language acquisition and development, reported that bilinguals' abstract ability was severely limited, with resulting paucity of vocabulary and word-concept retardation. The present investigation compared monolinguals and bilinguals on a verbal task and correlated their verbal learning performances with intelligence and social adjustment. Two experimental groups, 30 bilinguals and 30 chronological age, intelligence, sex, and socio-economic study.