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