The participants were 102 English-speaking monolingual children and 104 Hindi/Urdu- English speaking bilingual children (mean age = 118.26 months, SD = 11.23 months) in the UK. We tested children's vocabulary, working memory, executive function (cognitive inhibition, updating memory...
The novel-word learning skills are fundamental for second language proficiency and have been associated with vocabulary (Alt et al., 2019), word reading (Warmington & Hulme, 2011) as well as working memory and EF skills (Kaushanskaya & Marian, 2009). Most notably, in one study on Hindi-En...