• Differences in word learning in children: bilingualism or linguistic experience? 

      Borragan, Maria; De Bruin, Angela; Havas, Viktoria; De Diego-Balaguer, Ruth; Vulchanova, Mila Dimitrova; Vulchanov, Valentin; Dunabeitia Landaburu, Jon Andoni (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-12-09)
      The current study examines how monolingual children and bilingual children with languages that are orthotactically similar and dissimilar learn novel words depending on their characteristics. We contrasted word learning for words that violate or respect the orthotactic legality of bilinguals’ languages investigating the impact of the similarity between those two languages. In Experiment 1, three ...
    • The effects of language and emotionality of stimuli on vocabulary learning 

      Frances, Candice; De Bruin, Angela; Dunabeitia Landaburu, Jon Andoni (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-10-07)
      Learning new content and vocabulary in a foreign language can be particularly difficult. Yet, there are educational programs that require people to study in a language they are not native speakers of. For this reason, it is important to understand how these learning processes work and possibly differ from native language learning, as well as to develop strategies to ease this process. The current ...