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This study explores the omission of the passive participle in passive sentences in
simultaneously bilingual who speaks both Mandarin and English children. Active sentences
usually take the form “A did B.” Passive sentences usually come in the form of “B was done
by A.”

Within the past decade, people were debating two main theories in the bilingual language
process system. They are Unitary Systems Hypothesis and Separate Systems Hypothesis.
The purpose of this study is to explore whether simultaneously bilingual children have more
USH-like our SSH-like system by producing passive sentences.

We report on one experiment: “passive sentence production task”. To see whether our
hypotheses could be supported, we gathered the data from age 4-8 children with the passive
sentence production task.

After all, data was collected and analyzed, we found that our data shows the distinct feature
between children who simultaneously acquired Mandarin and English, acquired Mandarin
first then learned English, and learned English as a native language.
Mono-English and simultaneous shows difference, however, it is not significantly. But these
two groups show significant differences from sequential bilingual children.

Conflicting with our hypothesis, the results support that simultaneously bilingual children
have a more USH-like system when producing passive sentences.

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Descriptives

 

group Errors age

N Mono 4 4

  Simultaneous 4 4

  Sequential 4 4

Missing Mono 0 0

  Simultaneous 0 0

  Sequential 0 0

Mean Mono 0.250 5.50

  Simultaneous 1.50 6.25

  Sequential 4.00 5.75

Median Mono 0.00 5.50

  Simultaneous 1.50 6.00

  Sequential 4.50 5.50

Minimum Mono 0 4

  Simultaneous 1 5

  Sequential 2 5

Maximum Mono 1 7

  Simultaneous 2 8

  Sequential 5 7

 

One‑Way ANOVA

One‑Way ANOVA (Welch’s)

  F df1 df2 p

Errors

13.4 2 5.52 0.008

 

Group Descriptives

  group N Mean SD SE

Errors Mono 4 0.250 0.500 0.250

  Simultaneous 4 1.500 0.577 0.289

  Sequential 4 4.000 1.414 0.707

 

Plots

Errors

Tukey Post‑Hoc Test – Errors

 

  Mono Simultaneous Sequential

Mono Mean difference — ‑1.25 ‑3.75***

  p‑value — 0.193 < .001

Simultaneous Mean difference   — ‑2.50*

  p‑value   — 0.010

Sequential Mean difference     —

  p‑value     —

Note. * p < .05, ** p < .01, *** p < .001