Kidd and Garcia report that language acquisition studies are skewed toward monolingual and English-speaking populations. This commentary considers Kidd and Garcia’s arguments in light of our research on mother-preschooler discourse and non-verbal communication in Thai monolingual and Thai-English bilingual children. We discuss lessons learned from testing linguistically diverse children and underscore the importance of research on non-WEIRD (Western, Industrialized, Educated, Rich, and Democratic) populations. We advocate for the inclusion of children who speak understudied languages and those who speak multiple languages in developmental science.

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双语儿童语言习得研究的多样性：对基德和加西亚的评论（2022）

Kidd 和 Garcia 报告说，语言习得研究偏向于单语和英语人群。这篇评论根据我们对泰语单语和泰英双语儿童的母亲-学龄前儿童话语和非语言交流的研究考虑了基德和加西亚的论点。我们讨论了从测试语言多样化儿童中吸取的经验教训，并强调对非 WEIRD（西方、工业化、受过教育、富裕和民主）人群进行研究的重要性。我们提倡将说未充分研究的语言的儿童和说多种语言的儿童纳入发展科学。