Colors for letters in Chinese and English bilinguals by Tan, Vincent Wei Jun

“…In this study, the author conducted a repeated measures study to investigate whether individuals have an implicit grapheme-color association through a) whether Chinese-English bilinguals are non-random in their selection of colors for Latin letters of the English alphabet and b) whether language proficiency influences their selection of colors. …”
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Vowel distribution and hyper-articulation in Singaporean bilinguals by Lin, Hannah Shi Hui

“…This will be achieved through comparing first and second formant measurements for /i/, /a/ and /u/ between languages within English-Mandarin bilingual speakers. Additionally, this paper will also discuss vowel hyper-articulation in the context of bilingual parents. …”
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How bilinguals in Singapore think about space and time by Yung, Cassie Min

“…The demographics of our bilinguals revealed that they are exposed to other languages with different reading and writing direction, hence results may be affected. …”
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Cross-language lexical priming in English-dominant bilingual Singaporeans by Chay, Zhane Tong

“…The investigation of cross-language mental representations in bilinguals has been a longstanding focus in literature. …”
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Effects of bilingualism and language mixing on the development of English and Mandarin Chinese speech perception by Pan, Lei

“…Based on the acoustic targets established in Chapter 4, Chapter 5 presents a study of perception of the high front rounded vowel in two groups of bilinguals in Singapore: 76 English-Mandarin bilinguals for whom /i/ and /y/ are separate phonemes, and 51 English-Malay bilinguals for whom only /i/ is phonemic. …”
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Influence of language dominance on Filipinos' categorical perception of English phonemes by Paca, Angelie Marie Galang

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Investigation of parents' choice of topic-comment sentence construction during parent-child talk using narratives collected from the talk together study by Ng, Sing Xuan

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Linguistic sound symbolism and reading development : sound-shape matching and predictors of reading in multilingual Singapore by Woon, Fei Ting

“…This suggests that the Alien Zoo task is not biased by the amount of English language exposure in Singaporean bilingual preschoolers.…”
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Language identity in the Singaporean context by Yee, Jia'en

“…This study aims to validate a survey tool and visualisation technique that enables us to obtain a detailed “language fingerprint” for individuals, which would reflect the linguistic diversity in Singapore - a feature of the bilingual context which is often overlooked. This tool would chart out the language background of individuals, and reveal a unique language identity that differs from person to person. …”
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A preliminary analysis of the developmental vocabulary checklist data by Liew, Vernessa JiaQi

“…Keywords: Singapore, Developmental Vocabulary Checklist, vocabulary size, language assessment, bilingual, children, multilingual, English, Chinese, proficiency, early development…”
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Challenges of teaching phonics-based reading remediation in Singapore by Leung, Wai Tung

“…While there is more evidence supporting phonics-based reading intervention than non-phonics based, the pool of available evidence is small. We also found no bilingual studies with sufficient quality. Speakers of Singapore English are known to differ substantially in their pronunciations of vowels, compared to speakers of other varieties of English. …”
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