• Firooz Sadighi

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• Jafar Izadpanah

  Author

• Elham Tabatabaei

  Author

This study investigated the impact of bilingualism (Persian and Lurish children) on responses to
forced-choice questions regarding familiar and unfamiliar objects. 40 bilingual 4- and 5-yearold
children were selected and asked two-option forced-choice questions pertaining a group of
four familiar and four unfamiliar objects. The results of the study showed that older preschoolers
are less susceptible to two-option forced-choice questions. That is, 4- and 5-year-old bilingual
preschoolers have less intention to show a recency tendency unless they are asked about
unfamiliar objects. As a whole, the findings showed that children’s familiarity with objects
influenced their responses, whereas children’s language did not have any effect on their
responses.

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