A Language Stimulation Analysis of Cantonese-English Bilingual Infants in Hong Kong

Abstract

This study measured naturalistic language stimulation in Hong Kong among eight bilingual (Cantonese, English) infants. Two findings were that (a) infants received more indirect (adult-to-adult) than direct (adult-to-infant) language stimulation and (b) infants received 6.8 hr of language stimulation per day with more fillers, vocatives, and baby talk than declaratives, interrogatives, and imperatives.

Keywords

language stimulation bilingual (Cantonese-English) infants

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