Lexical development of a Japanese-English Bilingual child

Yuki Itani-Adams

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    Abstract

    This paper presents a quantitative analysis of the composition of lexicon of two typologically different languages of a Japanese-English bilingual child (from age 1;11 to 4;10). Both language-general and language-specific patterns of development were detected. Nouuns were dominant in both languages at the beginning, but this changed for Japanese as the child grew. The study also compared the composition of nouns and verbs in the caregivers' languages. It was found that both input languages had similar, if not more tokens of nouns than verbs, but the number of types differed.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationJSLS 2010
    EditorsEric Hauser
    Place of PublicationTokyo Japan
    PublisherJapanese Society for Language Sciences
    Pages93-96
    Editionpeer reviewed
    Publication statusPublished - 2010
    EventThe 12th Annual International Conference of the Japanese Society for Language Sciences - Tokyo Japan, Japan
    Duration: 1 Jan 2010 → …

    Conference

    ConferenceThe 12th Annual International Conference of the Japanese Society for Language Sciences
    Country/TerritoryJapan
    Period1/01/10 → …
    OtherJune 26-27 2010

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