Vocabulary production in toddlers from low-income immigrant families: evidence from children exposed to Romanian-Italian and Nigerian English-Italian
| Autor: | G Rossi, Rosanna Zerbato, Elena Antolini, Manuela Lavelli, Marinella Majorano, Chiara Barachetti |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Low income
Linguistics and Language Vocabulary media_common.quotation_subject Immigration Emigrants and Immigrants Nigeria Multilingualism Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Language Development 050105 experimental psychology Language and Linguistics Heritage language Developmental and Educational Psychology Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences toddlers Composition (language) General Psychology Language media_common low-SES immigrant families Romania Romanian 05 social sciences Second-language acquisition Linguistics language.human_language Nigerian English Child Preschool language L1-L2 relationship second language acquisition second language acquisition L1-L2 relationship toddlers low-SES immigrant families Psychology 050104 developmental & child psychology |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Child Language. 49:408-421 |
| ISSN: | 1469-7602 0305-0009 |
| Popis: | The relationship between first and second language in early vocabulary acquisition in bilingual children is still debated in the literature. This study compared the expressive vocabulary of 39 equivalently low-SES two-year-old bilingual children from immigrant families with different heritage languages (Romanian vs. Nigerian English) and the same majority language (Italian). Vocabulary size, vocabulary composition and translation equivalents (TEs) were assessed using the Italian/L1 versions of the CDI. Higher vocabulary in Italian than in the heritage language emerged in both groups. Moreover, Romanian-Italian-speaking children produced higher proportions of TEs than Nigerian English-Italian-speaking children, suggesting that L1-L2 phonological similarity facilitates the acquisition of cross-linguistic synonyms. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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