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Liang, Lu Yao; Wu, Dandan; Li, Hui – Journal of Child Language, 2019
This study investigated the development of temporal adverbs in early childhood Mandarin. All cases of temporal adverbs indicating the past, present, and future were extracted from the Early Child Mandarin Corpus (168 children in four age groups: 2;6, 3;6, 4;6, 5;6). Data analyses indicated: (1) Mandarin-speaking children produced a repertoire of…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Preschool Children, Form Classes (Languages), Age Groups
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Li, Hui; Jing, Mengguo; Wong, Eileen Chin Mei – Journal of Child Language, 2017
This study examined the development of and possible predictors of interrogative forms and functions in early childhood Mandarin. All the interrogatives drawn from the Early Child Mandarin Corpus (168 children 2;6, 3;6, 4;6, and 5;6) were analyzed. The main results indicated that (i) there were significant age effects in interrogative forms and…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Child Language, Computational Linguistics, Language Acquisition