Does Linguistic Similarity Affect Early Simultaneous Bilingual Language Acquisition?

Journal of Language Contact

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Anja Gampe¹  Antje Endesfelder Quick²  Moritz M. Daum³ 

[1] Institute of Socio-Economics, University of Duisburg-Essen;Institute of British Studies, University of Leipzig;Department of Psychology and Jacobs Center for Productive Youth Development, University of Zurich

关键词: bilingual language acquisition;    language similarity;    vocabulary development;    lexicon size;   

DOI  :  10.1163/19552629-13030001

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Brill

【 摘 要 】

It is well established that L2 acquisition is faster when the L2 is more closely related to the learner’s L1. In the current study we investigated whether language similarity has a comparable facilitative effect in early simultaneous bilingual children. The similarity between each bilingual child’s two languages was determined using phonological and typological scales. We compared the vocabulary size of bilingual toddlers learning different pairs of languages. Results show that the vocabulary size of bilingual children is indeed influenced by similarity: the more similar the languages, the larger the children’s vocabulary.

【 授权许可】

CC BY-NC