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Lucas, Rochelle Irene G.; Bernardo, Allan B. I. – Journal of Genetic Psychology, 2008
Researchers have suggested that there is a noun bias in children's early vocabularies brought about by features of adults' child-directed utterances, which may vary across languages (E. V. Bates et al., 1994; D. Gentner, 1982). In the present study, the authors explored noun bias in 60 Filipino-English bilingual children whose 2 languages differed…
Descriptors: Nouns, Vocabulary, Caregivers, Vocabulary Development
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Bautista, Maria Lourdes S. – Studies in Philippine Linguistics, 1977
The structure of the Noun Phrase (NP) is analyzed in a corpus featuring Tagalog-English code-switching. Instances of first language (L1) NP's appearing as subjects and complements in second language (L2) sentential units are examined to gain insight into code-switching. Ten thirty-minute tapes of a radio program in Tagalog provided the corpus for…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Code Switching (Language), English (Second Language), Language Research