Developmental Changes in the Early Child Lexicon in Mandarin Chinese

Autor/inn/en	Hao, Meiling; Liu, Youyi; Shu, Hua; Xing, Ailing; Jiang, Ying; Li, Ping
Titel	Developmental Changes in the Early Child Lexicon in Mandarin Chinese
Quelle	In: Journal of Child Language, 42 (2015) 3, S.505-537 (33 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0305-0009
DOI	10.1017/S030500091400018X
Schlagwörter	Mandarin Chinese; Developmental Stages; Child Language; Language Acquisition; Vocabulary Development; Young Children; Social Development; Nouns; Verbs; Age Differences; English; Influences; Concept Formation; Word Frequency; Grammar + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? 'Children''s language'; Kindersprache; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Wortschatzarbeit; Frühe Kindheit; Soziale Entwicklung; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; English language; Englisch; Influence; Einfluss; Einflussfaktor; Concept learning; Begriffsbildung; Word analysis; Frequency; Wortanalyse; Häufigkeit; Grammatik
Abstract	In this paper we report a large-scale developmental study of early productive vocabulary acquisition by 928 Chinese-speaking children aged between 1;0 and 2;6, using the Early Vocabulary Inventory for Mandarin Chinese (Hao, Shu, Xing & Li, 2008). The results show that: (i) social words, especially words for people, are the predominant type of words in Chinese-speaking children's earliest productive vocabulary; (ii) overall, Chinese-speaking children's vocabulary contains greater proportions of nouns than other word categories, especially at the earliest vocabulary stage; and (iii) verbs tend to appear earlier for Chinese-speaking children as compared with English-speaking children at the same levels of vocabulary development. In addition, our study has identified the underlying variables that influence the age of acquisition of words, specifically, the interplay between the conceptual (imageability) and linguistic properties (word frequency, word length, and grammatical category) that jointly shape the development of Mandarin-speaking children's early vocabulary. (As Provided).
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