APS
2026 APS Annual Convention · 2026
How Bilingual Experience Shapes Grammar: Empirical Insights from Sentence Repetition In Polish-Speaking Children
- 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.