List of figures. List of tables. Acknowledgements. 1 Introduction 2 A Phonetic Investigation of the Acquisition and Development of Primary Vowels 3 Deviation Phenomena in the Acquisition of Initials 4 Acoustic Analyses of Tone Acquisition and Related Errors 5 Acquisition of Locative Words Relating to "Up" and "Down" 6 The Onset of Time Consciousness – the Acquisition of Le 了 7 Acquisition and Development of Expressions of Subjectivization 8 Early Acquisition of Degrees of Modality 9 Acquisition of the Zai 在Construction 10 Early Acquisition and Development of the Ditransitive Construction 11 Acquisition of Simplex Relative Clauses References. Index
Yunqiu Zhang is a professor of linguistics and applied linguistics at the School of Arts of Capital Normal University. Her main research interest include children’s language acquisition and research regarding cognitive grammar in Chinese.