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Hao, Meiling; Liu, Youyi; Shu, Hua; Xing, Ailing; Jiang, Ying; Li, Ping – Journal of Child Language, 2015
In this paper we report a large-scale developmental study of early productive vocabulary acquisition by 928 Chinese-speaking children aged between 1;0 and 2;6, using the Early Vocabulary Inventory for Mandarin Chinese (Hao, Shu, Xing & Li, 2008). The results show that: (i) social words, especially words for people, are the predominant type of…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Developmental Stages, Child Language, Language Acquisition
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Kyratzis, Amy; Ross, Tamara Shuqum; Koymen, S. Bahar – Journal of Child Language, 2010
Children are believed to construct their causal theories through talk and interaction, but with the exception of a few studies, little or nothing is known about how young children justify and build theories of the world together with same-age peers through naturally occurring interaction, Children's sensitivity to when a pair or group of…
Descriptors: Play, Preschool Children, Friendship, Attribution Theory