Mandarin–English speaking bilingual and Mandarin speaking monolingual children’s comprehension of relative clauses
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DOI: 10.1017/s0142716419000079
Abstract: Abstract The current study investigated the comprehension of subject and object relative clauses (RCs) in bilingual Mandarin–English children (N = 55, Mage = 7 years, 5 months [7;5], SD = 1;8) and language-matched monolingual Mandarin-speaking… read more here.
Keywords: mandarin english; comprehension; relative clauses; mandarin speaking ... See more keywords
Why jumped is so difficult: tense/aspect marking in Mandarin-English bilingual children.
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DOI: 10.1017/s0305000920000082
Abstract: Learning to mark for tense in a second language is notoriously difficult for speakers of a tenseless language like Chinese. In this study we test two reasons for these difficulties in Chinese-English sequential bilingual children:… read more here.
Keywords: mandarin english; bilingual children; aspect marker; english bilingual ... See more keywords
Chinese-English Speakers’ Perception of Pitch in Their Non-Tonal Language: Reinterpreting English as a Tonal-Like Language
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DOI: 10.1177/0023830919894606
Abstract: Changing the F0-contour of English words does not change their lexical meaning. However, it changes the meaning in tonal languages such as Mandarin. Given this important difference and knowing that words in the two languages… read more here.
Keywords: pitch; english speakers; english words; language ... See more keywords
Bilingual Mandarin-English preschoolers’ spoken narrative skills and contributing factors: A remote online story-retell study
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DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.797602
Abstract: This study examined the spoken narrative skills of a group of bilingual Mandarin–English speaking 3–6-year-olds (N = 25) in Australia, using a remote online story-retell task. Bilingual preschoolers are an understudied population, especially those who are speaking… read more here.
Keywords: spoken narrative; story; narrative skills; remote online ... See more keywords
The Effects of Working Memory Capacity in Metaphor and Metonymy Comprehension in Mandarin–English Bilinguals’ Minds: An fMRI Study
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DOI: 10.3390/brainsci12050633
Abstract: This study investigated the role of working memory capacity (WMC) in metaphoric and metonymic processing in Mandarin–English bilinguals’ minds. It also explored the neural correlations between metaphor and metonymy computations. We adopted an event-related functional… read more here.
Keywords: working memory; bilinguals minds; memory capacity; metonymy ... See more keywords
Explaining L2 Lexical Learning in Multiple Scenarios: Cross-Situational Word Learning in L1 Mandarin L2 English Speakers
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DOI: 10.3390/brainsci12121618
Abstract: Adults commonly struggle with perceiving and recognizing the sounds and words of a second language (L2), especially when the L2 sounds do not have a counterpart in the learner’s first language (L1). We examined how… read more here.
Keywords: word learning; cross situational; language; word ... See more keywords