Early grammatical marking development in Mandarin-speaking toddlers
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9795667 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ruoyu Huang (0000-0001-7389-8796, University of Michigan, corresponding author), Paul Fletcher (0000-0001-8906-2280), Paul C Fletcher (0000-0001-8257-1517), Zhixiang Zhang (0000-0002-0971-956X, Peking University First Hospital), Weilan Liang (Peking University First Hospital), Virginia A Marchman (0000-0001-7183-6743, Stanford University), Virginia Marchman, Twila Tardif (0000-0001-8739-9090, University of Michigan) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 58 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 631-645 |
| Publication date | 2022-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Developmental Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0012-1649 • E-ISSN: 1939-0599 |
| Publisher | American Psychological Association (APA) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1037/dev0001316 |
| PMID | 35343712 |
| OpenAlex | W4220994613 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
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. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)
Developmental psychology · Grammatical category · Language development · Linguistics · Mandarin Chinese · Morpheme · Noun · Resultative · Verb · Language Development and Disorders · Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |