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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820428403321

Autore

Xie Xijin

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; Boston, : De Gruyter Mouton, 2011

ISBN

1-283-39962-8

9786613399625

3-11-024009-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (216 p.)

Collana

Studies on language acquisition, , 1861-4248 ; ; 42

Altri autori (Persone)

LiHui <1968 Sept. 28->

Disciplina

495.1/795127

495.1795127

Soggetti

Cantonese dialects - Grammar

Language acquisition

Early childhood education

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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