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
• Other Authors: School of Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Social sciences::Psychology; Bilingualism; Noun Bias
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/146434
• Institution: 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...