Early Child Cantonese : : Facts and Implications / / Hui Li, Shek Tse.

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• VerfasserIn: Tse, Shek,; Li, Hui,
• MitwirkendeR: Li, Hui,; Tse, Shek Kam,; Wong, Eileen Chin-mei,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Studies on Language Acquisition [SOLA] , 42
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (202 p.)

This book is the first publication on record that systematically and comprehensively addresses the acquisition and development of Cantonese in early childhood. It draws upon evidence from up-to-date reviews of associated literature, on the outcomes of numerous research studies conducted by the authors and on the outcomes of an in-depth study of the largest corpus of early childhood Cantonese. To supplement and illuminate published trends in the literature, carefully gathered reliable and valid empirical data are critically scrutinized. The evidence is used to clarify and examine theoretical assumptions and to outline putative developmental trends in early childhood Cantonese pragmatics.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Cantonese lexical development in the early years -- Chapter 3. Syntactic development in the early years -- Chapter 4. Interrogative development in the early years -- Chapter 5. Cognitive development in the early years: The case of temporal words -- Chapter 6. General conclusion and implications -- Appendix I: Jyutping: The Cantonese Romanization System proposed by the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong -- Appendix II Early vocabulary inventory for Cantonese Chinese -- References -- Index