Early Language Acquisition of Mandarin-Speaking Children

<p>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.<br> 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 <em>Le</em> 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.<br> 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.</p>