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Early Child Cantonese Facts and Implications

:	Shek Tse, Hui Li
:	Early Child Cantonese Facts and Implications
:	De Gruyter Mouton
:	9783110240092
:	Studies on Language Acquisition [SOLA]ISSN
:	1
:	CHF 168.70
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:	Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft
:	English

:	214
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< >This book is the first publication on record that systematically and comprehensively addresses the acquisition and development of Cantonese in early childhood. It draws upon evidence from up-to-date reviews of associated literature, on the outcomes of numerous research studies conducted by the authors and on the outcomes of an in-depth study of the largest corpus of early childhood Cantonese. To supplement and illuminate published trends in the literature, carefully gathered reliable and valid empirical data are critically scrutinized. The evidence is used to clarify and examine theoretical assumptions and to outline putative developmental trends in early childhood Cantonese pragmatics.

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< >Shek Kam Tse, University of Hong Kong, China;

Hui Li, University of Hong Kong, China.

	Foreword	6
	Preface	8
	Acknowledgments	10
	Chapter 1. Introduction	14
	1.1 Cantonese as a major Chinese dialect	14
	1.2 Reasons for studying early childhood Cantonese	19
	1.3 Research data and method	23
	1.4 Organization of the book	28
	Chapter 2 Cantonese lexical development in the early years	35
	2.1 Lexical categories in Cantonese	36
	2.2 Early child lexical development: Repertoire, norms, and trends	38
	2.3 Noun bias versus verb bias	44
	2.4 Cantonese classifiers	50
	2.5 Conclusion and implications	62
	Chapter 3 Syntactic development in the early years	63
	3.1 Indicators of syntactic development	63
	3.2 Syntactic development in the early years	67
	3.3 Gender and age differences in syntactical development	75
	3.4 Conclusion and implications	78
	Chapter 4 Interrogative development in the early years	83
	4.1 Interrogative forms in early childhood Cantonese	83
	4.2 Interrogative functions in early childhood Cantonese	94
	4.3 Conclusion and implications	102
	Chapter 5 Cognitive development in the early years: The case of temporal words	105
	5.1 Forms of early Cantonese temporal words	105
	5.2 Development of early Cantonese temporal words	109
	5.3 Discussion, conclusion, and implications	117
	Chapter 6 General conclusion and implications	121
	6.1 General conclusions	121
	6.2 General discussion	122
	6.3 Limitations of the study	125
	6.4 Implications	125
	Appendix I: Jyutping: The Cantonese Romanization System proposed by the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong	130
	Appendix II: Early vocabulary inventory for Cantonese Chinese	132
	References	203
	Index	214