Bilingual Lexical Development

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Across
  1. 3. Bilingual children pool their knowledge across languages as they move to longer, more complex utterances; the level of knowledge in one language facilitates learning in the other
  2. 6. Examples include the EOWPVT-4 or BESA, among others covered in class presentations
  3. 9. A process of using grammatical information such as subject and object arguments as cues to decide among possible meanings of words
  4. 11. The way a parent speaks to a young child that is lexically and grammatically simplified
  5. 12. Words that are specific to a particular academic area (lower priority in vocab instruction)
  6. 14. Counts words only known in Language A + those known only in Language B plus words known in both languages
  7. 15. Basic, everyday vocab in daily conversations
Down
  1. 1. Forming an initial link between the phonological representation of a new word and its possible meaning
  2. 2. Type token ratio
  3. 4. Words that are less frequent in oral conversations but are used across academic areas
  4. 5. Sum of words in Language A + Language B
  5. 7. Number of different words
  6. 8. A way to assess the lexical knowledge of a bilingual client based on parent report
  7. 10. Strictly context-based usages of words with general event representations
  8. 13. Dissociation between vocabulary measures and other language test measures