Early language acquisition of Mandarin-speaking children /

"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-speak...

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Main Author: Zhang, Yunqiu, 1962- (Author)
Other Authors: Ford, Tianlin (Translator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.
Series:Chinese linguistics.
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Summary:"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; children learn the degree of modality following the order of from probability to necessity; children's acquisition of syntactic structures is more impacted by genetics, and is 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"--
Item Description:Translation of: Han yu er tong zao qi yu yan de fa zhan.
Physical Description:ix, 285 pages ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780367354800
0367354802