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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
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Cambridge University Press

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).