Early Language Acquisition of Mandarin-Speaking Children (Chinese Linguistics)

Compared with other subdisciplines in Chinese linguistics, children’s language acquisition is a significant field with relatively limited achievements. Based on data from a dynamic and developmental corpus, this book is a comprehensive exploration of the early development of Chinese-speaking children’s language acquisition. Anchoring the discussions regarding phonetics, semantics and aspects of syntax in a cognitive and functional framework, the author conducts an in-depth analysis of many acquisition characteristics, such as the inevitable and incidental errors of their learning of initials; their ability to obtain the concept of time at a young age and the utilization of Le in the expression of the past tense; their understanding of subjectivity at a young age and the ability to express it; their learning of the degree of modality following the order of from probability to necessity; and children’s acquisition of syntactic structures being impacted by genetics and also affected by the steps involved in syntactic processing. Although genetics, cognition and experience all play a role in children’s language acquisition, this book focuses on the role of cognitive functions. By successfully explaining the acquisition rules based on some cutting-edge linguistic theories, the book will certainly be beneficial to scholars studying linguistics, psychology, cognitive science and early childhood educators. "Compared with other subdisciplines in Chinese Linguistics, children's language acquisition is a significant field with relatively limited achievements. Based on data from a dynamic and developmental corpus, this book is a comprehensive exploration of the early development of Chinese-speaking children's language acquisition. Anchoring the discussions regarding phonetics, semantics, and aspects of syntax in a cognitive and functional framework, the author conducts an in-depth analysis of many acquisition characteristics, such as: the inevitable and incidental errors of their learning of initials; their ability to obtain the concept of time at a young age, and the utilization of Le in the expression of the past tense; their understanding of subjectivity at a young age and the ability to express it; children learn the degree of modality following the order of from probability to necessity; children's acquisition of syntactic structures is more impacted by genetics, and is also affected by the steps involved in syntactic processing. Although genetics, cognition, and experience all play a role in children's language acquisition, this book focuses on the role of cognitive functions. By successfully explaining the acquisition rules based on some cutting-edge linguistic theories, the book will certainly be beneficial to scholars studying linguistics, psychology, cognitive science and early childhood educators"-- Provided by publisher Early_Language_Acquisition_of_Mandarin-Speaking_Ch..._----_(Pg_1--1) 9780429344183_preview Half Title Series Title Copyright Contents List of figures List of tables Acknowledgments 1 Introduction References Early_Language_Acquisition_of_Mandarin-Speaking_Ch..._----_(Pg_23--97) Early_Language_Acquisition_of_Mandarin-Speaking_Ch..._----_(Pg_98--172) Early_Language_Acquisition_of_Mandarin-Speaking_Ch..._----_(Pg_173--247) Early_Language_Acquisition_of_Mandarin-Speaking_Ch..._----_(Pg_248--297) 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.