APS

2026 APS Annual Convention · 2026

How Bilingual Experience Shapes Grammar: Empirical Insights from Sentence Repetition In Polish-Speaking Children

Barcelona, Spain · May 2026

Posters · Language in Mind: Speech, Reading & Communication

  • Magdalena Kochańska
    The Maria Grzegorzewska University
  • Joanna Świderska
    The Maria Grzegorzewska University
  • Natalia Banasik-Jemielniak
    The Maria Grzegorzewska University

Abstract

This empirical study of 90 children (monolingual, Polish-English, Polish-German) using a Polish SRep task found that monolinguals outperformed bilinguals across different grammatical measures. Results show which syntactic structures are most affected by bilingual experience and emphasize that lower bilingual scores reflect typical trajectories, not disorder.

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