Nouns Are Not Always Learned before Verbs: Evidence from Mandarin Speakers' Early Vocabularies.

Tardif, Twila

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ERIC Number: EJ526416

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Publication Date: 1996

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Nouns Are Not Always Learned before Verbs: Evidence from Mandarin Speakers' Early Vocabularies.

Tardif, Twila

Developmental Psychology, v32 n3 p492-504 May 1996

Challenges Gentner's (1982) claim that nouns are universally predominant in children's early vocabularies, noting that when a conservative method of counting nouns was used, 9 out of 10 22-month-old monolingual Mandarin-speaking children produced more verbs or action words than nouns or object labels in their naturalistic speech. (MDM)

Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Foreign Countries, Infants, Language Research, Mandarin Chinese, Nouns, Speech Acts, Verbs, Vocabulary Development

Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: China (Beijing)

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