Exploring Noun Bias in Filipino-English Bilingual Children

Autor/inn/en	Lucas, Rochelle Irene G.; Bernardo, Allan B. I.
Titel	Exploring Noun Bias in Filipino-English Bilingual Children
Quelle	In: Journal of Genetic Psychology, 169 (2008) 2, S.149-164 (16 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0022-1325
DOI	10.3200/GNTP.169.2.149-164
Schlagwörter	Nouns; Vocabulary; Caregivers; Vocabulary Development; Bilingualism; Tagalog; English; Children; Verbs; Syntax; Linguistic Input; Adults; Language Research + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Wortschatz; Caregiver; Carer; Betreuungsperson; Pfleger; Wortschatzarbeit; Bilingualismus; English language; Englisch; Child; Kind; Kinder; Sprachbildung; Sprachforschung
Abstract	Researchers have suggested that there is a noun bias in children's early vocabularies brought about by features of adults' child-directed utterances, which may vary across languages (E. V. Bates et al., 1994; D. Gentner, 1982). In the present study, the authors explored noun bias in 60 Filipino-English bilingual children whose 2 languages differed in how they emphasized nouns and verbs in typical syntactic forms. The results revealed a noun bias, but only in the bilingual children's English vocabulary. The noun bias in English was associated with the frequency of nouns in the caregivers' utterances and the proportion of nouns in the initial positions of the caregivers' utterances. The authors also found different associations between salient positions in the adult utterances and children's vocabularies in English and Filipino. (As Provided).
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