TY - BOOK AU - Tse,Shek AU - Li,Hui AU - Tse,Shek Kam AU - Wong,Eileen Chin-mei TI - Early Child Cantonese: Facts and Implications T2 - Studies on Language Acquisition [SOLA] , SN - 9783110240047 AV - PL1733 .T74 2011 U1 - 495.1/795127 23 PY - 2011///] CY - Berlin, Boston : PB - De Gruyter Mouton, KW - Cantonese dialects KW - Grammar KW - Early childhood education KW - Language acquisition KW - Kantonesisch KW - Spracherwerb KW - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General KW - bisacsh KW - Cantonese KW - Child Language Development KW - Chinese Language KW - Language Acquisition N1 - 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 --; References --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - 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 assumptions and to outline putative developmental trends in early childhood Cantonese pragmatics UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110240092 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110240092 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110240092/original ER -