Numerical morphology supports early number word learning: Evidence from a comparison of young Mandarin and English learners

•English nouns are obligatorily marked for singular/plural; Mandarin nouns only rarely so.•English learners learn the meaning of the word for one earlier than Mandarin learners.•The English number word learning advantage is specific to the number word for one.•Mandarin learners have better number wo...

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