Understanding the puzzle of vocabulary development in multilingual Singapore and its missing pieces

• Main Authors: Woon, Fei Ting, Cai, Shirong, Styles, Suzy J.
• Other Authors: School of Social Sciences
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Social sciences::Psychology; Child-directed Speech; Language Development; Language; Singapore; Singlish
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/152531
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Over the last two decades, the literature on bilingual children has shown that children who grow up learning two languages do not typically differ in their total vocabulary size compared to their monolingual peers (Poulin-Dubois et al, 2012) though composition may be smaller compared to size with tw...