Evidence map›Paper›PMID 35224184›Full record

ArticlePolicy insights from the behavioral and brain sciences2022

Bilingual Language Development in Infancy: What Can We Do to Support Bilingual Families?

Laia Fibla, Jessica E Kosie, Ruth Kircher, Casey Lew-Williams, Krista Byers-Heinlein

Open access · hybridAbstract read
In one paragraph

Article in Policy insights from the behavioral and brain sciences, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
8citing papers in PubMed
7.7field-weighted citation impact, top 2% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 29 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Article
  2. Article
  3. Article
  4. Article
  5. Article
  6. Article
  7. Bilingual Language Development in Infancy: What Can We Do to Support Bilingual Families?Policy insights from the behavioral and brain sciences · 2022
    Article
  8. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Laia FiblaConcordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1917-8509
Jessica E KosiePrinceton University, Princeton, NJ, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2390-0963
Ruth KircherMercator European Research Centre on Multilingualism and Language Learning Fryske Akademy, Leeuwarden, the Netherlands.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8437-7371
Casey Lew-WilliamsPrinceton University, Princeton, NJ, USA.
Krista Byers-HeinleinConcordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7040-2510
Concordia University · CAPrinceton University · USFryske Akademy · NL

Funding

Navigating two languages: Effects of everyday language switching on bilingual infants and toddlersR01HD095912 · NICHD · PRINCETON UNIVERSITY · PI BYERS-HEINLEIN, KRISTA, LEW-WILLIAMS, CASEY · 2019 to 2023
$1.9M
Neural and behavioral coordination in infant-caregiver communication across the socioeconomic spectrumF32HD103439 · NICHD · PRINCETON UNIVERSITY · PI KOSIE, JESSICA ELIZABETH · 2021 to 2023
$176k
NICHD NIH HHS F32 HD103439NICHD NIH HHS R01 HD095912
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Many infants and children around the world grow up exposed to two or more languages. Their success in learning each of their languages is a direct consequence of the quantity and quality of their everyday language experience, including at home, in daycare and preschools, and in the broader community context. Here, we discuss how research on early language learning can inform policies that promote successful bilingual development across the varied contexts in which infants and children live and learn. Throughout our discussions, we highlight that each individual child's experience is unique. In fact, it seems that there are as many ways to grow up bilingual as there are bilingual children. To promote successful bilingual development, we need policies that acknowledge this variability and support frequent exposure to high-quality experience in each of a child's languages.

Indexed as

bilingualismchildrendual language learnersinfancylanguage acquisitionlanguage experiencelanguage inputlanguage outcomes

Identifiers

PMID35224184
PMCPMC8866745
OpenAlexW4221043497

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
LicenceCC BY
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.