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Publication details [#65501]

Sun, He, Bin Yin, Beth Ann O'Brien and Nur Farina Begum Binte Amsah. 2018. Differential effects of internal and external factors in early bilingual vocabulary learning: The case of Singapore. Applied Psycholinguistics 39 (2) : 383–411.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingual acquisition | child | knowledge | psycholinguistics | vocabulary growth

Language as a subject

Chinese, Mandarin | English, Singapore | Malay | Tamil

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

Both internal and external factors impact the rate of bilingual children's vocabulary evolution. This article explored this matter on 805 Singapore children (8 months, 1 month to 5 years, 4 years) who are learning English (societal language) and an ethnic language (Mandarin/Malay/Tamil).