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Early critical thinking in a Mandarin-speaking child : an exploratory case study
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Cross-linguistic influence of L2 on L1 in late Chinese-English bilinguals : the case of subject realisation
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The influence of the environmental language (Lε) in Mandarin-English bilingual development : the case of transfer in wh- questions
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Shaping EFL teachers' critical intercultural awareness through intercultural education
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“个” 在英汉双语儿童中的泛化: 语言输人的影响 ; (Bilingual children's overgeneralisation of the classifier ge in Chinese : what is the role of caretakers' input?)
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Children’s acquisition of specific classifiers in classifier languages (such as Chinese) has received much scholarly attention. In this study, preschool children’s overuse of the general classifier ge in Mandarin is investigated in order to find out the influence of caretakers’ input on young learners’ choice of classifiers. In Chinese, the general classifier ge can be used for a variety of head nouns, yet there are some nouns which grammatically require other specific classifiers. Previous studies showed that children’s ‘overgeneralisation’ of ge in Mandarin reflects a rule-based learning mechanism. Methodologically, the elicitation counting in previous studies ignored the authentic input from caregivers, so it is unclear whether children’s overuse of ge is simply a case of overgeneralisation in acquisition or an outcome caused by other factors such as caretakers’ input. In this study, a corpus of teachers’ and children’s natural conversations are used to analyse the patterns of ge in caretakers’ productions in relation to children’s uses of the classifier. The corpus includes Mandarin transcripts of weekly recordings of teachers and children in a childcare centre in China, and the participants involved are five teachers, seven English-Mandarin bilingual children and twelve Mandarin monolingual children. The results show that bilingual and monolingual children show similar patterns of overuse of ge, and both teachers and children extend the use of ge for nouns which require specific classifiers, though the rate of teachers’ overuse is significantly lower than that of children. The results suggest that children’s overuse of ge is influenced by caretakers’ input as well as rule-based learning. Thus, we propose that the caretakers’ input and children’s rule-based mechanism are two contributing factors for the generalized use of ge for young learners in China.
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bilingualism; children; China; Chinese language; language acquisition; XXXXXX - Unknown
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URL: http://handle.westernsydney.edu.au:8081/1959.7/uws:51214
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双语人的优势: 父母子女终身受益 ; (The advantages of being bilingual: the lifelong benefits to parents and children)
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Qi, Ruying (R10565). - : China, The Commercial Press, 2017
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Bilingual development by children of immigrant families : what parents and teachers should know?
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Input and acquisition of Mandarin classifiers by English-Mandarin bilingual children
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Interaction between phonological and lexical development of Putonghua-speaking children
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《双语儿童:早期发展及语言接触》述评 ; (Translation of “The Bilingual Child” : Theory and Practice)
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Qi, Ruying (R10565). - : China, Beijing World Publishing Corporation, 2014
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Preliminary report : an acoustic phonetic analysis of word-initial stop production by young simultaneous Mandarin-English bilingual children
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Preliminary report : an acoustic phonetic analysis of word-initial stop production by young simultaneous Mandarin-English bilingual children
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澳大利亚大学中文教学中语言评估的设制 : 3D模式 ; (Designing an assessment for Chinese language teaching in Australian universities : a 3D approach)
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The Bilingual Acquisition of English and Mandarin: Chinese Children in Australia
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Qi, Ruying (R10565). - : U.S., Cambria Press, 2011
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