Contrasting Lexical Biases in Bilingual English-Mandarin Speech: Verb-Biased Mothers, but Noun-Biased Toddlers

Autor/inn/en	Setoh, Peipei; Cheng, Michelle; Bornstein, Marc H.; Esposito, Gianluca
Titel	Contrasting Lexical Biases in Bilingual English-Mandarin Speech: Verb-Biased Mothers, but Noun-Biased Toddlers
Quelle	In: Journal of Child Language, 48 (2021) 6, S.1185-1208 (24 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Setoh, Peipei) ORCID (Esposito, Gianluca)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0305-0009
DOI	10.1017/S0305000920000720
Schlagwörter	Nouns; Bilingualism; English (Second Language); Second Language Learning; Mandarin Chinese; Toddlers; Speech Communication; Toys; Play; Mothers; Parent Child Relationship; Language Acquisition; Child Development; Native Language; Verbs; Language Usage; Foreign Countries; Vocabulary Development; Singapore + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bilingualismus; English as second language; English; Second Language; Englisch als Zweitsprache; Zweitsprachenerwerb; Infant; Infants; Toddler; Kleinkind; Toy; Spielzeug; Spiel; Mother; Mutter; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Kindesentwicklung; Sprachgebrauch; Ausland; Wortschatzarbeit; Singapur
Abstract	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 contained more nouns than verbs across book reading and toy playing. In contrast, their mothers' speech contained more verbs than nouns in both English and Mandarin but differed depending on the context of the interaction. Although toddlers demonstrated a noun bias for both languages, the noun bias was more pronounced in English than in Mandarin. Together, these findings support early noun dominance as a widespread phenomenon in the lexical acquisition debate but also provide evidence that language specificity also plays a minor role in children's early lexical development. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01