Constraint Interaction in Language Processing and Acquisition Chairperson Sook Whan Cho Sogang University, Seoul, Korea,
[email protected] Speakers Helena Hong Gao Nanyang Technological University,
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[email protected] (Co-authors: Sun-Woong Kim (Kwang-Woon University), Gui-Sun Moon (Hansung University), Hye-Kyung Wee (Dankook University), & Yoonjoo Na (Dongguk University) Darcy Sperlich National Kaohsiung University of Applied Sciences,
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[email protected] (Co-author: Luca Onnis (Nanyang Technological University), Matthew Lou-Magnuson (Nanyang Technological University), & Erik Thiessen (Carnegie Mellon University) 30 The objective of this symposium is to bring together Bilingual Children’s Flexibility in Paired studies viewed as resulting from constraint interaction Conceptual Knowledge Retrieval and cross-linguistic variation. In particular, a question Helena Hong Gao & Say Young Kim is posed with respect to how different cues are weighted in language processing and language acquisition when This study investigated 3- to 5-year-old Chinese- they are in conflict. It is expected that competing English bilingual children’s conceptual knowledge and approaches are presented and competition models in flexible interpretation of the words ‘big’ and ‘little’ in psycholinguistic research are applied to individual English and ‘dà’ and ‘xiǎo’ in Mandarin Chinese.