Language and the developing organization of bilingual memory in children.
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Title
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Language and the developing organization of bilingual memory in children.
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Identifier
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AAI9630463
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identifier
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9630463
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Creator
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Haritos, Calliope.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Katherine Nelson
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Date
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1996
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Psychology, Developmental | Language, Linguistics
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Abstract
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The issue of bilingual memory organization is examined with respect to general issues of storage, event representations, encoding, organization of storage, and retrieval issues. The developing role of language and the language-thought relationship with respect to organization of bilingual memory is also explored. Bilingual English-Greek children in the first, third, and fifth grade, heard two stories over the course of two days. On the third day they were asked to recall all foods from the two stories. Each story consisted of two events, a breakfast and a party. Each event was presented in a different language (English or Greek). Monolinguals were presented with the same stories as well. Recall was measured in terms of mean number of total foods remembered, story one foods, story two foods, party foods, and breakfast foods. A second recall measure was the Adjusted Ratio of Clustering (ARC). Recall was analyzed for story, event, and LP (language of presentation) clustering. A 3(Grade) x 2(Event) x 2(Language of Presentation) ANOVA with repeated measures on the last two factors produced a Main effect for Grade, a Main effect for Event, a Main effect for Language of Presentation, and a three-way Interaction. There were significant gains in memory, with age. Memory preferences were reported for party foods and foods presented in Greek. Cluster analyses revealed the importance of event clustering, the decline of story clustering with age and the failure for LP to emerge as a significant recall organizer. Bilingual memory organization is discussed with respect to the changing role of language for bilinguals, which afforded them the cognitive opportunity to maximize their recall performance. They remembered significantly more foods, overall, than monolinguals of the present study, suggesting that complexity in organization can be beneficial, with respect to bilingual recall performance.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
