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How Bilingual Parents Talk to Children About Number in Mandarin and English
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, Manda...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6527767/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31139124 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01090 |
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author | Chang, Alicia Sandhofer, Catherine M. |
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description | 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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spelling | pubmed-65277672019-05-28 How Bilingual Parents Talk to Children About Number in Mandarin and English Chang, Alicia Sandhofer, Catherine M. Front Psychol Psychology 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. Frontiers Media S.A. 2019-05-14 /pmc/articles/PMC6527767/ /pubmed/31139124 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01090 Text en Copyright © 2019 Chang and Sandhofer. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Chang, Alicia Sandhofer, Catherine M. How Bilingual Parents Talk to Children About Number in Mandarin and English |
title | How Bilingual Parents Talk to Children About Number in Mandarin and English |
title_full | How Bilingual Parents Talk to Children About Number in Mandarin and English |
title_fullStr | How Bilingual Parents Talk to Children About Number in Mandarin and English |
title_full_unstemmed | How Bilingual Parents Talk to Children About Number in Mandarin and English |
title_short | How Bilingual Parents Talk to Children About Number in Mandarin and English |
title_sort | how bilingual parents talk to children about number in mandarin and english |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6527767/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31139124 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01090 |
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