Early Language Acquisition of Mandarin-Speaking Children

ISBN-13: 9781032082189 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 296 str.

Yunqiu Zhang

Opis

This book is a comprehensive exploration of the early development of Chinese-speaking children’s language acquisition. Based on a dynamic and developmental corpus, the author conducts an in-depth analysis of many acquisition characteristics.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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.