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

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: Setoh, Peipei, Cheng, Michelle, Bornstein, Marc H., Esposito, Gianluca
• مؤلفون آخرون: School of Social Sciences
• التنسيق: مقال
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: 2021
• الموضوعات: Social sciences::Psychology; Bilingualism; Noun Bias
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/146434
• المؤسسة: 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...