Early Grammatical Marking Development in Mandarin-Speaking Toddlers

Autor/inn/en	Huang, Ruoyu; Fletcher, Paul; Zhang, Zhixiang; Liang, Weilan; Marchman, Virginia; Tardif, Twila
Titel	Early Grammatical Marking Development in Mandarin-Speaking Toddlers
Quelle	In: Developmental Psychology, 58 (2022) 4, S.631-645 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Huang, Ruoyu)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0012-1649
DOI	10.1037/dev0001316
Schlagwörter	Toddlers; Mandarin Chinese; Grammar; Language Acquisition; Language Skills; Morphemes; English; Syntax; Morphology (Languages); Foreign Countries; China (Beijing); MacArthur Communicative Development Inventory + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Infant; Infants; Toddler; Kleinkind; Grammatik; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Language skill; Sprachkompetenz; Morphem; English language; Englisch; Morphology; Morphologie; Ausland
Abstract	The current study examined early grammatical marking in a relatively understudied language, Mandarin, by using the Mandarin version of MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory. Two waves of data collection included 338 monolingual children (17-36 months; 143 female) at Time 1 and 308 children (32-55 months; 139 female) at Time 2 and their caregivers, whose education ranged from third grade (elementary school) or below to postgraduate with a median of high school. Our data showed a clear order of grammatical marking acquisition among these children and supported findings on the linguistic specificity of morphological development such that early- and late-acquired markers in Mandarin are not acquired in the same order as English or other languages. Negative "mei2," "bu4," possessive "-de," classifiers, and the aspect marker "le" were the earliest-acquired markers, followed by modals, negative "bie2," adverbs, sentence final particles, resultative verb compounds, and aspect markers "guo4" and "yao4." Complex clauses and the aspect marker "zheng4" were acquired the latest. Furthermore, consistent with previous cross-linguistic studies, the development patterns of a wide range of Mandarin grammatical markers indicate that markers that are more perceptually salient and obligatory, have clear form-meaning mappings, and often appear in isolation or utterance-final position were acquired earlier than others. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01