Effects of language mixing on bilingual children's word learning.

Language mixing is common in bilingual children's learning environments. Here, we investigated effects of language mixing on children's learning of new words. We tested two groups of 3-year-old bilinguals: French-English (Experiment 1) and Spanish-English (Experiment 2).

Labels or Concepts? The Development of Semantic Networks in Bilingual Two-Year-Olds.

The adult lexicon links concepts and labels with related meanings (e.g., dog-cat).