Contrasting lexical biases in bilingual English–Mandarin speech : verb-biased mothers, but noun-biased toddlers

• Main Authors: Setoh, Peipei, Cheng, Michelle, Bornstein, Marc H., Esposito, Gianluca
• 其他作者: School of Social Sciences
• 格式: Article
• 語言: English
• 出版: 2021
• 主題: Social sciences::Psychology; Bilingualism; Noun Bias
• 在線閱讀: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/146434
• 機構: Nanyang Technological University

Is noun dominance in early lexical acquisition a widespread or a language-specific phenomenon? Thirty Singaporean bilingual English–Mandarin learning toddlers and their mothers were observed in a mother-child play interaction. For both English and Mandarin, toddlers’ speech and reported vocabulary c...