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Peer reviewedTardif, Twila; Gelman, Susan A.; Xu, Fan – Child Development, 1999
Compared the proportions of nouns and verbs in early vocabularies of English- and Mandarin-speaking toddlers and their mothers. Found that Mandarin-speaking children had relatively fewer nouns and more verbs than English-speaking children. When reading books, children's vocabularies were dominated by nouns but not when playing with toys. Mothers…
Descriptors: Caregiver Speech, Comparative Analysis, Language Acquisition, Mandarin Chinese
