Early Language Acquisition of Mandarin-Speaking Children
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Early Language Acquisition of Mandarin-Speaking Children

  1. 286 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Early Language Acquisition of Mandarin-Speaking Children

About this book

Compared with other subdisciplines in Chinese linguistics, children's language acquisition is a significant field with relatively limited achievements. Based on data from a dynamic and developmental corpus, this book is a comprehensive exploration of the early development of Chinese-speaking children's language acquisition.
Anchoring the discussions regarding phonetics, semantics and aspects of syntax in a cognitive and functional framework, the author conducts an in-depth analysis of many acquisition characteristics, such as the inevitable and incidental errors of their learning of initials; their ability to obtain the concept of time at a young age and the utilization of Le in the expression of the past tense; their understanding of subjectivity at a young age and the ability to express it; their learning of the degree of modality following the order of from probability to necessity; and children's acquisition of syntactic structures being impacted by genetics and also affected by the steps involved in syntactic processing. Although genetics, cognition and experience all play a role in children's language acquisition, this book focuses on the role of cognitive functions.
By successfully explaining the acquisition rules based on some cutting-edge linguistic theories, the book will certainly be beneficial to scholars studying linguistics, psychology, cognitive science and early childhood educators.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. List of figures
  8. List of tables
  9. Acknowledgments
  10. 1 Introduction
  11. 2 A phonetic investigation of the acquisition and development of primary vowels
  12. 3 Deviation phenomena in the acquisition of initials
  13. 4 Acoustic analyses of tone acquisition and related errors
  14. 5 Acquisition of locative words relating to “up” and “down”
  15. 6 The onset of time consciousness – the acquisition of Le 了
  16. 7 Acquisition and development of expressions of subjectivization
  17. 8 Early acquisition of degrees of modality
  18. 9 Acquisition of the Zai 在 construction
  19. 10 Early acquisition and development of the ditransitive construction
  20. 11 Acquisition of simplex relative clauses
  21. Bibliography
  22. Index