Early child Cantonese : facts and implications / by Shek Kam Tse, Hui Li.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tse, Shek-kam.

Contributor:

Li, Hui, 1968 September 28-

Series:

Studies on language acquisition ; 42.

Studies on language acquisition, 1861-4248 ; 42

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cantonese dialects--Grammar.

Cantonese dialects.

Language acquisition.

Early childhood education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (216 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 as

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 / Tse, Shek Kam / Li, Hui / Wong, Eileen Chin-mei

References

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613399625

9781283399623

1283399628

9783110240092

3110240092

OCLC:

751963461