Selected Bibliography and Presentations
for the University of Miami Bilingualism Study Group

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Eilers, R. E., Gavin, W. J., & Wilson, W. R. (1979). Linguistic experience and phonemic perception in infancy: A cross-linguistic study. Child Development, 50, 14-18.

Eilers, R. E., Gavin, W. J., & Oller, D. K. (1982). Cross-linguistic perception in infancy: The role of linguistic experience. Journal of Child Language, 9, 289-302.

Eilers, R. E., Oller, D. K., & Benito-Garcia, C. R. (1984). The acquisition of voicing contrasts in Spanish and English learning infants and children: A longitudinal study. Journal of Child Language, 11, 313-336.

Fernández, M. C., Pearson, B. Z., Umbel, V. M., Oller, D. K., & Molinet, M. (1992). Bilingual receptive vocabulary in Hispanic preschool children. Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 14, 268-276.

Fernández, M. C. (January, 1991, ). Predictive factors for Spanish and English receptive vocabulary among Hispanic preschool children. Paper presented at the Spanish and Portuguese Bilingualism Conference, Miami, FL.

Fernández, M. C., Umbel, V. M., & Pearson, B. Z. (July 1995, ). MŽdicion del vocabulario en inglŽs y espa–ol de ni–os bilingŸes en Miami. Paper presented at the Congreso Interamericano de Psicologia, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Fernández, M. C., & Molinet, M. (October, 1988, ). Spanish receptive vocabulary of young Hispanic children in Miami. Paper presented at the 9th International Conference on Spanish in the United States, Miami, FL.

Gathercole, V. C. M. (1988). Some myths you may have heard about first-language acquisition. TESOL Quarterly, 22, 407-433.

Gathercole, V. C. M. (1990). Multifunctional se: Course of development in Spanish children. Papers and Reports on Child Language Development.

Gathercole, V. C. M., Cramer, L., Somerville, S. C., & Jansen op de Haar, M. (1995). Ontological categories and function: Acquisition of new names. Cognitive Development, 10, 225-251.

Gathercole, V. C. M., & Hasson, D. (1995). Gender marking in Spanish: Linguistic versus sociological determinants of feminine form in words for humans. In Y. K. L. F. Bouton (Ed.), Gender, language, and power. Special issue of Studies in the Linguistic Sciences (Vol. 25:2, pp. 49-76).

Gathercole, V. C. M. (in submission). The acquisition of the linguistic mass/count distinction by bilingual children. Paper presented at the EUROSLA 5, Dublin, Ireland.

Gathercole, V. C. M. (October 1995 and in submission, with C. Montes). That-trace effects in Spanish and English speaking monolinguals and bilinguals. Papers and Reports on Child Language Development, 29, 46-53.

Gathercole, V. C. M. (September 1995). The acquisition of the mass/count distinction by bilingual children.

Gathercole, V. C. M. (September 1995 and in submission). The acquisition of the linguistic mass/count distinction by bilingual vs. monolingual children.

Navarro, A. M., Pearson, B. Z., Cobo-Lewis, A. B., & Oller, D. K. (December 1995 and in submission). Assessment of phonological development in bilingual children at age 36 months: Comparison to monolinguals in each language.

Navarro, A. M., & Pearson, B. Z. (in preparation). Identifying the language spoken by 26-month-old monolingual and bilingual-learning babies in a no-context situation.

Oller, D. K. ( 1974). Toward a general theory of phonological processes in first and second language learning. Paper presented at the Western Conference on Linguistics.

Oller, D. K., Coleman, D., & Eilers, R. E. (1978). A comparative study of discriminability of signed and spoken vocabulary. Paper presented at the Southeastern Conference on Human Development, Atlanta, GA.

Oller, D. K. (1979). Syllable timing in English, Spanish and Finnish. In H. H. P. Hollien (Ed.), Current issues in the phonetic sciences (Vol. 99, pp. 331-343): John Benjamin's, B.V., Publishing Company.

Oller, D. K., & Eilers, R. E. (1982). Similarity of babbling in Spanish- and English-learning babies. Journal of Child Language, 9, 565-578.

Oller, D. K., & Eilers, R. E. (1983). Speech identification in Spanish- and English-learning 2-year-olds. Journal of Speech and Hearing Research, 26, 50-54.

Oller, D. K. (1986). Metaphonology and infant vocalizations. In F. L. R. Zetterstrom (Ed.), Precursors of early speech (pp. 21-35). Basingstoke, Hampshire, England: MacMillan.

Oller, D. K., Lewedag, V., Umbel, V. M., & Basinger, D. L. (1992, May). The onset of rhythmic babbling in infants exposed to bilingual and monolingual environments. Paper presented at the Symposium on rhythmic vocal development at the International Conference on Infant Studies, Miami Beach, FL.

Oller, D. K., Cobo-Lewis, A. B., & Eilers, R. E. (in press). Phonological translation in bilingual and monolingual children. Applied Psycholinguistics.

Oller, D. K., Levine, S., Eilers, R. E., & Pearson, B. Z. (in press). Vocal precursors to linguistic communication: How babbling is connected to meaningful speech. In R. Paul (Ed.), The Speech/Language Connection . Baltimore, MD: Paul H. Brookes.

Oller, D. K., Eilers, R. E., Urbano, R., & Cobo-Lewis, A. B. (in submission). Development of precursors to speech in infants exposed to two languages. .

Oller, D. K., Cobo-Lewis, A. B., & Eilers, R. E. (in submission). Phonological translation in bilingual and monolingual children. .

Oller, D. K., & Pearson, B. Z. (January 1991). Phonological differentiation in a simultaneous bilingual infant. Paper presented at the Conference on Spanish and Portuguese Bilingualism, Miami, FL.

Pearson, B. Z. (1990). The comprehension of metaphor by preschool children. Journal of Child Language, 17, 185-203.

Pearson, B. Z. (1993). Predictive validity of the Scholastic Aptitude Test for Hispanic bilingual students. Hispanic Journal of the Behavioral Sciences, 15, 342-356.

Pearson, B. Z., & McGee, A. (1993). Language choice in Hispanic-background junior high school students in Miami: 1988 update. In A. Roca & J. Lipski (Eds.), Studies in Anthropological Linguistics : Mouton de Gruytere.

Pearson, B. Z., & Fernández, S. (1994). Patterns of interaction in the lexical development in two languages of bilingual infants. Language Learning, 44, 617-653.

Pearson, B. Z., Fernández, S., & Oller, D. K. (1995). Cross-language synonyms in the lexicons of bilingual infants: One language or two? Journal of Child Language, 22, 345-368.

Pearson, B. Z., Fernández, S., Lewedag, V., & Oller, D. K. (1997). Input factors in lexical learning of bilingual infants (ages 10 to 30 months). Applied Psycholinguistics, 18, 41-58.

Pearson, B. Z., & Fernández, S. (April 1992). Lexical development and organization in bilingual infants: One lexicon or two? Paper presented at the S.E. Conference on Linguistics, Gainesville, FL.

Pearson, B. Z. (April 1996). Dissociations in lexical development across languages in early simultaneous bilinguals. Paper presented at the Invited symposium on early bilingual development at the International Conference on Infant Studies, Providence, RI.

Pearson, B. Z., & Draizar, A. (December 1988). Language mixing in a bilingual jargon aphasic. Paper presented at the American Association of Applied Linguistics, New Orleans, LA.

Pearson, B. Z. (December 1996). Assessing bilingual narratives: Borrowing a system from gymnastics judging. Paper presented at the Modern Language Association Annual Meeting, Washington, DC.

Pearson, B. Z. (in preparation). Noun-clause complements and the expression of false belief.

Pearson, B. Z. (in submission). Assessing narratives from bilingual children: Borrowing a system from gymnastics judges.

Pearson, B. Z., & Navarro, A. M. (in submission). Do young simultaneous bilinguals have a foreign accent in one or both of their languages?

Pearson, B. Z., & Navarro, A. M. (July 1996). Do early simultaneous bilinguals (at age 3) have a foreign accent in one or both of their languages? Paper presented at the VIIth International Congress for the Study of Child Language, Istanbul, Turkey.

Pearson, B. Z. (June 1984). The right-hemisphere bilingual hypothesis. Paper presented at the Florida Linguistics Association, Tampa, FL.

Pearson, B. Z. (March 1992). Rationale for English-Spanish-CDI mapping : University of Miami.

Pearson, B. Z., & Fernández, S. (May 1992). Lexical development and organization in simultaneous bilingual infants: Are bilinguals slower? Paper presented at the International Conference of Infant Studies, Miami Beach, FL.

Pearson, B. Z. (November 1993). Bilingual environment and lexical learning in bilingual infants (10-30 months). Paper presented at the 14th Symposium on Spanish and Portuguese Bilingualism, Fairfield, CT.

Pearson, B. Z., Navarro, A. M., & Gathercole, V. M. (November 1994, 1995). Assessment of phonetic differentiation in bilingual learning infants, 18 to 30 months. Paper presented at the Boston University Conference of Child Language Development, Boston, MA.

Pearson, B. Z., & Umbel, V. M. (November, 1995; July, 1996). The relationship between narrative and linguistic skills in English and Spanish among Hispanic school children in Miami. Paper presented at the VIIth International Congress for the Study of Child Language, Istanbul, Turkey.

Pearson, B. Z., & Umbel, V. M. (November, 1995; July, 1996). The relationship between narrative and linguistic skills in English and Spanish among Hispanic school children in Miami. Paper presented.

Pearson, B. Z., & McGee, A. (October 1988). Language choice in Hispanic-background junior high school students in Miami: 1988 update. Paper presented at the 9th International Conference on Spanish in the US, Miami, FL.

Pearson, B. Z., & Ortega, P. (October, 1995; in submission). Factors affecting Spanish language learning among Hispanic school children in Miami.

Pearson, B. Z., Oller, D. K., Umbel, V. M., & Fernández, M. C. (October, 1996). The relation of lexical knowledge to measures of literacy and narrative discourse in monolingual and bilingual children. Paper presented at the Second Language Research Forum, Tucson, AZ.

Thevenin, D., Eilers, R. E., Oller, D. K., & LaVoie, L. (1985). Where's the drift in babbling drift? A cross-linguistic study. Applied Psycholinguistics, 6, 3-15.

Umbel, V. M. w. F., T. (first author), & Guy, L. (1985). Infants' responses to mothers' imitative behaviors. Infant Mental Health Journal, 6(1), 40-44.

Umbel, V. M., Pearson, B. Z., Fernández, M. C., & Oller, D. K. (1992). Measuring bilingual children's receptive vocabularies. Child Development, 63, 1012-1020.

Umbel, V. M., & LaVoie, L. (April 1988). The IMCE: An attempt at the measurement of mutual contingency experience. Paper presented at the International Conference on Infant Studies, Washington, D.C.

Umbel, V. M. (January 1991). Spanish and English receptive vocabulary of bilingual 1st, 3rd, and 6th graders. Paper presented at the Conference on Spanish and Portuguese Bilingualism, Miami, FL.

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