Publications

Publication details [#56759]

Quay, Suzanne and Janice Nakamura. 2012. The impact of caregivers' interrogative styles in English and Japanese on early bilingual development. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 15 (4) : 417–434.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingual acquisition | communicative style | interrogation | language development1 | mother-child conversation

Language as a subject

English | Japanese

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This study shows that the contrasting interrogative styles of a caregiving mother and grandmother in respectively English (more tutorial) and Japanese (more child-centered) generated different infant response rates and more swift English development.