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The Development of Interrogative Forms and Functions in Early Childhood Cantonese
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Li, Hui; Tse, Shek Kam; Sin Wong, Jessie Ming; Mei Wong, Eileen Chin; Leung, Shing On – First Language, 2013
This study investigated question acquisition in Cantonese-speaking young children with a focus on the development of interrogative forms and functions. Data from a child Cantonese corpus (492 children aged 36, 48 and 60 months) were analysed. The main results were that: (1) all the interrogative forms and functions were produced by the three age…
Descriptors: Language Acquisition, Sino Tibetan Languages, Information Seeking, Computational Linguistics