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How Bilingual Parents Talk to Children About Number in Mandarin and English.
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Number-related language input has been shown to influence children's number word acquisition and mathematical ability. Significant differences exist between how Mandarin Chinese speaking parents and monolingual English-speaking parents use numeric language in speech to children. In particular, Mandarin Chinese speaking parents use cardinal number much more frequently in speech to children than do English speaking parents. However, because previous studies have been conducted cross-nationally, research has been unable to disentangle the influences of language from parental influence. The current study examined numeric language input to preschool children with bilingual Mandarin-English American parents. Results show that when parents speak to their children in Mandarin Chinese, children hear more instances and examples of the cardinal number principle than when parents speak to their children in English. This suggests that differences between how the Mandarin Chinese and English languages are structured leads to disparities in how frequently children hear cardinal number in everyday speech.
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Keyword:
bilingual; cardinality; children; Clinical Research; Cognitive Sciences; language input; number words; Pediatric; Psychology
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URL: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/14b9d1p2
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How Bilingual Parents Talk to Children About Number in Mandarin and English
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Language Differences in Bilingual Parent Number Speech to Preschool-Aged Children
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In: Chang, Alicia; & Sandhofer, Catherine. (2009). Language Differences in Bilingual Parent Number Speech to Preschool-Aged Children. Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society, 31(31). Retrieved from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/8fd7f88j (2009)
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