Emergence of early nouns and verbs in English and Mandarin : a longitudinal analysis of caregivers' speech and gestures.

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Main Author:	Setoh, Pei Pei.
Other Authors:	Weining Chu Chang
Format:	Theses and Dissertations
Published:	2010
Subjects:	DRNTU::Humanities::Language::Linguistics
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10356/36151
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Institution:	Nanyang Technological University

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spelling	sg-ntu-dr.10356-361512019-12-10T12:51:57Z Emergence of early nouns and verbs in English and Mandarin : a longitudinal analysis of caregivers' speech and gestures. Setoh, Pei Pei. Weining Chu Chang School of Humanities and Social Sciences DRNTU::Humanities::Language::Linguistics 116 p. Young, monolingual English-learners have been reported to have mostly nouns in their early vocabularies (Fenson et al., 2007), whereas young, monolingual Mandarin-learners have been reported to have a mixture of both nouns and verbs (Tardif, Fletcher, Liang, and Zhang, 2002). Moreover, this cross-linguistic difference is greatest at the earliest stages of their vocabulary acquisition (Tardif, under review), lending further support for the importance of caregiver input in children's early language development. Prior research has focused on caregivers' linguistic input frequencies and the perceptual saliency of words being learnt to account for these differences. However, caregivers' extralinguistic cues, which direct attention in combination with speech, have received much less attention. Master of Arts (HSS) 2010-04-23T02:42:26Z 2010-04-23T02:42:26Z 2007 2007 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/10356/36151 application/pdf
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title	Emergence of early nouns and verbs in English and Mandarin : a longitudinal analysis of caregivers' speech and gestures.
title_short	Emergence of early nouns and verbs in English and Mandarin : a longitudinal analysis of caregivers' speech and gestures.
title_full	Emergence of early nouns and verbs in English and Mandarin : a longitudinal analysis of caregivers' speech and gestures.
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Emergence of early nouns and verbs in English and Mandarin : a longitudinal analysis of caregivers' speech and gestures.

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