Table 3.

Mean proportions (SDs) of paradigmatic and syntagmatic word association responses of bilingual and monolingual children during the first, second, and third elicitations.

	Bilingual children						Monolingual children
	Mandarin			English			English
Response type	Trial 1	Trial 2	Trial 3	Trial 1	Trial 2	Trial 3	Trial 1	Trial 2	Trial 3
Paradigmatic	.43 (.24)	.31 (.22)	.18 (.19)	.50 (.18)	.33 (.12)	.23 (.08)	.40 (.23)	.32 (.18)	.25 (.17)
Syntagmatic	.44 (.23)	.50 (.18)	.55 (.18)	.44 (.19)	.54 (.16)	.60 (.11)	.45 (.22)	.50 (.21)	.46 (.20)

Note. Pairwise comparisons for paradigmatic performance indicated that Trial 1 > Trial 2 > Trial 3 for bilingual Mandarin and bilingual English performance; Trial 1 > Trial 2 = Trial 3 for monolinguals. No other pairwise comparisons reached significance.