Bilingual children's sensitivity to specificity and genericity: Evidence from metalinguistic awareness

Metalinguistic Awareness and Bilingual vs. Monolingual EFL Learners: Evidence from a Diagonal Bilingual Context

This paper reports a study of 85 Iranian EFL learners in the English Language Department of Urmia University. It explores the possible differences between performance of 38 Persian monolingual and 47 Turkish-Persian bilingual EFL learners on metalinguistic tasks of ungrammatical structures and translation. The underlying hypothesis is that bilinguals in diagonal bilingual contexts experience a ...

Running Title: Bilingualism and Cognition: a Review of a Metalinguistic Task of Phonological Awareness in Bilingual

Certain aspects of meta-linguistic awareness are known to be essential for bilingual children’s literacy acquisition. Phonological awareness is one of these skills. Beginning with a discussion of a pivotal developmental research model of control & analysis of cognitive skills in bilinguals, this review will discuss several studies that explored phonological awareness in bilinguals who knew diff...

Metalinguistic Quantification: Evidence from Japanese Wh-doublets

Contrary to the widely held presumption that quotations are quantificationally opaque, I argue that quantification into quotational contexts is in fact possible, although only in a very limited way. Specifically, I show that quantification over expressions, or metalinguistic quantification, into quotational contexts is attested in natural language. The main empirical support comes from Japanese...

Translation: a bilingual metalinguistic skill that facilitates better comprehension

Children's understanding of homonymy: metalinguistic awareness and false belief.

The aim of this study was to explain why children have difficulty with homonymy. Two experiments were conducted with forty-eight children (Experiment 1) and twenty-four children (Experiment 2). Three- and four-year-old children had to either select or judge another person's selection of a different object with the same name, avoiding identical objects and misnomers. Older children were successf...