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Nouns are not always learned before verbs

Evidence from Mandarin speakers' early vocabularies

Dados Bibliográficos

ID9787516
AutoresTwila Tardif (0000-0001-8739-9090, University of Michigan, autor correspondente)
Ano1996
Volume32
Fascículo3
Páginas492-504
Data de publicação1996-05-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoDevelopmental Psychology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0012-1649 • E-ISSN: 1939-0599
EditoraAmerican Psychological Association (APA) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1037/0012-1649.32.3.492
OpenAlexW2086868105
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas132
Referências citadas25

This article examines D. Gentner's (1982) claim that nouns are universally predominant in children's early vocabularies. 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. When a more liberal definition of nouns was used, neither a noun nor a verb bias was found. Importantly, there was no difference in the type-token ratios of the children's use of nouns and verbs. Thus, a sampling bias type of explanation cannot explain the prevalence of verbs in these data. Instead, these data suggest the importance of variety of linguistic and sociocultural input factors in early word learning

Linguistics · Mandarin Chinese · Noun · Proper noun · Child and Animal Learning Development · Language Development and Disorders · Philosophy · Psychology · Reading and Literacy Development

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