Bilingual language acquisition by Korean schoolchildren in New York City

Bilingual Language Acquisition

Bilingualism is a fascinating area of study with the potential to contribute much to the understanding of language learning, production, comprehension and processing. Nuria Sebastian-Galles’ paper [this issue] provides some interesting evidence on the early speech perception of bilingual language acquisition. I first make some comments on the data she presents before moving on to a somewhat bro...

Semantic facilitation in bilingual first language acquisition.

Bilingual first language learners face unique challenges that may influence the rate and order of early word learning relative to monolinguals. A comparison of the productive vocabularies of 435 children between the ages of 6 months and 7 years-181 of which were bilingual English learners-found that monolinguals learned both English words and all-language concepts faster than bilinguals. Howeve...

Diabetes in New York City.

Bilingual Babbling: Evidence for Language Differentiation in Dual Language Acquisition

In this study, we examined the babbling of a pre-verbal child who was learning English and French simultaneously. There were three overarching goals to the research: 1) To examine evidence for language differentiation during pre-lexical stages of bilingual acquisition; 2) To examine whether the time course of phonological development during the pre-verbal stages of bilingual acquisition is in l...

Tuberculin testing and risk of tuberculosis infection among New York City schoolchildren.

OBJECTIVES To assess adherence to a 1996 health policy change, which discontinued mandatory tuberculin skin testing (TST) of new entrants to NYC primary schools and continued mandatory testing of new entrants to secondary schools. METHODS The proportion tested before (1991-1995) and after (1996-1998) the change in health policy was determined. Factors associated with TST positivity and the co...