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Contrasting Lexical Biases in Bilingual English-Mandarin Speech: Verb-Biased Mothers, but Noun-Biased Toddlers
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Setoh, Peipei; Cheng, Michelle; Bornstein, Marc H.; Esposito, Gianluca – Journal of Child Language, 2021
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…
Descriptors: Nouns, Bilingualism, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
Noun and Verb Production in Maternal and Child Language: Continuity, Stability, and Prediction across the Second Year of Life
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Longobardi, Emiddia; Spataro, Pietro; Putnick, Diane L.; Bornstein, Marc H. – Language Learning and Development, 2016
The present study examined continuity/discontinuity and stability/instability of noun and verb production measures in 30 child-mother dyads observed at 16 and 20 months, and predictive relations with the acquisition of nouns and verbs at 24 months. Children exhibited significant discontinuity and robust stability in the frequency of nouns and…
Descriptors: Nouns, Verbs, Parent Child Relationship, Language Acquisition
Systems and Cascades in Cognitive Development and Academic Achievement
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Bornstein, Marc H.; Hahn, Chun-Shin; Wolke, Dieter – Child Development, 2013
A large-scale ("N" = 552) controlled multivariate prospective 14-year longitudinal study of a developmental cascade embedded in a developmental system showed that information-processing efficiency in infancy (4 months), general mental development in toddlerhood (18 months), behavior difficulties in early childhood (36 months),…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Longitudinal Studies
Play in Two Societies: Pervasiveness of Process, Specificity of Structure.
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Bornstein, Marc H.; Haynes, O. Maurice; Pascual, Liliana; Painter, Kathleen M.; Galperin, Celia – Child Development, 1999
Compared exploratory, symbolic, and social play and interaction of Argentine and U.S. 20-month olds and their mothers. Found patterns of cultural similarity in sex differences and differences in the use of exploratory and symbolic play. Overall, Argentine and U.S. dyads used different modes of exploration, representation, and interaction,…
Descriptors: Child Behavior, Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Differences
Expressive Vocabulary in Language Learners from Two Ecological Settings in Three Language Communities
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Bornstein, Marc H.; Cote, Linda R. – Infancy, 2005
This study compared multiple characteristics of girls' and boys' vocabulary in 6 different linguistic communities--1 urban and 1 rural setting in each of 3 countries. Two hundred fifty-two mothers in Argentina, Italy, and the United States completed vocabulary checklists for their 20-month-old children. Individual variability was substantial…
Descriptors: Mothers, Linguistics, Urban Areas, Rural Areas
The Hebrew Communicative Development Inventory: Language Specific Properties and Cross-Linguistic Generalizations.
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Maital, Sharone L.; Dromi, Esther; Sagi, Abraham; Bornstein, Marc H. – Journal of Child Language, 2000
Discusses construction of the Hebrew Communicative Development Inventory (HCDI), an adaptation of the MacArthur Communicative Development Inventory (MCDI). The HCDI was administered to a stratified sample of Israeli mothers of 253 toddlers. Results are presented and compared with scores from the MCDI. Results indicate that conclusions concerning…
Descriptors: Child Language, Comparative Analysis, Contrastive Linguistics, English