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

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...

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Main Authors: Setoh, Peipei, Cheng, Michelle, Bornstein, Marc H., Esposito, Gianluca
Other Authors: School of Social Sciences
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: 2021
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/146434
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Institution: Nanyang Technological University
Language: English
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