Download or read book The Phonological Development of Five to Seven year old Cantonese English Bilingual Children in New Zealand written by Hin Ting Henrietta Lee and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present study examined the phonological development of 15 typically developing successive Cantonese-English bilingual children aged 5;0 to 7;11 in New Zealand. The study aimed to provide normative data to aid Speech-Language Therapists (SLTs) working in New Zealand in diagnosing Cantonese-English bilingual clients. Using similar methodologies from previous studies of phonological development on monolingual children (Dodd, Holm, Zhu & Crosbie, 2003) and bilingual children (e.g. Holm & Dodd, 2006), children's phonological acquisition, phonological accuracy and phonological error patterns were analyzed and compared to available data from monolingual and bilingual studies. It was found that language dominance interacted with all aspects of phonological development. For phonological acquisition, all children have acquired the majority of the phonemes in Cantonese and English. Non-Cantonese-dominant bilinguals were slower in the acquisition of Cantonese phonemes compared to their Cantonesedominant bilingual peers, whose rate of acquisition was comparable to monolingual Cantonese children. Bilinguals were comparable to local monolingual English children in the acquisition of English phonemes. For phonological accuracy, most children obtained high levels of phonological accuracy (close to or above 90%) in both languages. However, due to small sample sizes within each age group, no statistical analyses were conducted. Overall, bilinguals have caught up in terms of English accuracy to the levels of their local monolingual peers. However, Cantonese accuracy was slightly lower than monolinguals, possibly related to first language attrition. Non-Cantonese-dominant bilinguals obtained noticeably lower accuracy in Cantonese than English, while Cantonese-dominant obtained similar or higher accuracy in Cantonese than English. Analyses of phonological error patterns revealed that bilinguals produced both typical and atypical error patterns, consistent with previous studies. Some atypical patterns possibly arise from interference across the bilingual's languages. Interference typically occurred by the dominant language influencing the non-dominant language. Two atypical patterns, denasalization and orally released final nasals were generally not found in bilingual studies, possibly as a result of contact between Chinese dialects. The study highlighted the importance of considering clients' language background and language dominance in clinical work.

Download or read book Phonological Development of Mandarin English Bilingual Children in New Zealand written by Tai-Ying Lee and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Phonological Development in Specific Contexts written by Zhu Hua and published by Multilingual Matters. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book-length study of phonological development and impairment of Chinese-speaking children. It provides the first normative data on this population, which will be of value to speech and language therapists and other professionals. It also advances the notion of 'phonological saliency' which explains the cross-linguistic similarities and differences in children's phonological development.

Download or read book Early Child Cantonese written by Shek Tse and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-08-29 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Phonological Accuracy and Phonological Patterns in Cantonese English Bilingual Children written by 鄭婷戈 and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Effect of Priming and Verbal Short Term Memory on Word Learning in Cantonese Speaking Children written by Hui-Mei Lau and published by Open Dissertation Press. This book was released on 2017-01-26 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation, "The Effect of Priming and Verbal Short-term Memory on Word Learning in Cantonese-speaking Children: a Developmental Study" by Hui-mei, Lau, 劉曉眉, was obtained from The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) and is being sold pursuant to Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License. The content of this dissertation has not been altered in any way. We have altered the formatting in order to facilitate the ease of printing and reading of the dissertation. All rights not granted by the above license are retained by the author. Abstract: In older children and adults, words are stored in the mental lexicon in an organized manner and processed in a systematic manner on the basis of their phonological structures. The processing of novel words is therefore more efficient. Young children may process a novel word in a holistic manner, and the words are not stored phonemically distinct with one another in the mental lexicon. Priming is a method often used in spoken word recognition studies. The effects of phonological primes on word learning would reflect the organization of mental lexicon in young children. At the same time, research has shown that there is a positive correlation between phonological short-term memory (STM) and word learning. But the mechanism of how both phonological STM and mental lexicon are involved in word learning is not clear. Forty-two five- to seven-years-old children with a mean age of 6;06 (SD = 0;10) participated in a spoken word learning task. They were presented with names of 18 novel cartoon characters in nine word learning blocks and the names were novel disyllables that are consistent with the phonotactics of Cantonese. In each block, children were exposed to two novel words along with two real words as primes, with the primes phonologically similar to one novel word ("PHONOLOGICAL" condition) but not with the other one ("UNRELATED" condition). They heard each novel word twice and the primes three times. These participants also took part in nonword repetition tasks and a serial order construction task as measures of the phonological STM. A significantly positive effect of phonological priming was observed in the cartoon character naming but not in the form identification and the referent identification. Further analysis of the naming results showed that only the same-onset-and-tone primes produced a significant priming effect. Among the various short-term memory measures, only nonword repetition of pseudosyllables (syllable score) was significantly and positively correlated with the cartoon character naming score after controlling for age. The findings of the present study presented some evidence that even five-year-old Cantonese-speaking children have already organized the lexical representations in neighbourhoods so that phonological primes could exert facilitatory effects on their spoken word learning. Even this young group of children was able to process novel words in a segmental manner. But there could still be some subtle differences between the younger and older children. A word learning model which integrates the involvement of phonological STM and mental lexicon could help to explain how these two memory components contribute to word learning and the word learning differences between the younger and older children. The preliminary findings of this study provided some evidence in children's sensitivity to the phonological structures of novel spoken words. Cantonese-speaking children, similar to English-speaking ones, are sensitive to the phonological structures of novel words and phonological primes facilitate their spoken word learning. The results of this study further suggest long-term memory and phonological short-term memory are involved at the initial stage of word learning. However, the mechanism of interactions needs to be further investigated. DOI: 10.5353/th_b5194768 Subjects: Short-t

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Download or read book Bilingual Language Development in 4 Year Old Children in Hong Kong Preschools written by Pui-Ling Diana Lee and published by Open Dissertation Press. This book was released on 2017-01-27 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation, "Bilingual Language Development in 4-year-old Children in Hong Kong Preschools" by Pui-ling, Diana, Lee, 李佩鈴, was obtained from The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) and is being sold pursuant to Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License. The content of this dissertation has not been altered in any way. We have altered the formatting in order to facilitate the ease of printing and reading of the dissertation. All rights not granted by the above license are retained by the author. Abstract: Abstract 51 four-year-old preschool children from high, middle and low socioeconomic (SES) backgrounds who were learning Cantonese and English in Hong Kong preschools were assessed on their Cantonese and English listening skills and verbal fluencies. The Pre- primary and Primary Chinese Literacy Scale and a verbal fluency test were used to measure children's level of competencies in both languages, and parent questionnaires and teacher interviews were used to find out the family's socioeconomic status (SES), parental language input and preschool language learning time. Children's Cantonese listening and verbal fluency scores were similar across all SES levels, but children from high SES background score significantly higher in English listening and verbal fluency tests than low SES children. Strong correlations were evident between English listening and verbal fluency scores, and SES, language use of father, amount of home reading time in English, reading language at home, and English learning time at preschool. It was found that apart from SES, language use of father and reading language at home significantly contributed to the prediction of children's English listening skills and verbal fluencies. 3 DOI: 10.5353/th_b3537495 Subjects: Bilingualism in children - China - Hong Kong Preschool children - China - Hong Kong - Language

Download or read book Language Mixing and Grammatical Development in a Cantonese English Balanced Bilingual Child in Hong Kong written by Sze-Man Emily Yiu and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-27 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Phonological Awareness in Cantonese English Bilingual Preschool Children written by Kin-ching Lam (Kobe) and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Development of Null Arguments in a Cantonese English Bilingual Child written by Pai-yuan Huang and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Language Mixing in an English Cantonese Bilingual Child with Uneven Development written by Yee-king Lai (Regine) and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Phonology of Guangzhou Cantonese written by Ming Chao Gui and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Developing Reading and Writing in Second language Learners written by Diane August and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2008 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reporting the findings of the National Literacy Panel on Language-Minority Children and Youth, this book concisely summarises what is known from empirical research about the development of literacy in language-minority children and youth, including development, environment, instruction, and assessment.

Download or read book Developing Descriptions written by Wei-Yan Fung and published by Open Dissertation Press. This book was released on 2017-01-26 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation, "Developing Descriptions: the Emergence of Cantonese Adjectival Constructions in a Bilingual Child" by Wei-yan, Fung, 馮卉欣, was obtained from The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) and is being sold pursuant to Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License. The content of this dissertation has not been altered in any way. We have altered the formatting in order to facilitate the ease of printing and reading of the dissertation. All rights not granted by the above license are retained by the author. Abstract: The setting up of the lexical category 'adjective' in Chinese has been a controversial topic in linguistics. This is due to the phenomenon that in Chinese, among the group of words which denote properties of noun phrases, there is a notable amount manifesting the characteristics of verbs. That is, they can be potentially qualified as both verbs and adjectives. Over the years, studies on syntactic distributional patterns and semantics on this group of words have been carried out in order to address the problem. However, a theory which adequately describes this multifunctional category in the Chinese language still seems to be lacking. To shed light on the issue, the current thesis investigates the behavior of words which are potentially considered as 'adjectives' occurring naturally in a Cantonese-English bilingual child's corpus data. Patterns of child language development can provide a new perspective to the adjective-verb controversy in Cantonese from the viewpoint of language acquisition. At the same time, they might review whether interference between English and Cantonese occur. In this thesis, the use of adjectival verbs for attribution and predication, and the manner of their being modified are discussed. While the results in our data set do not show that English has prominent influence on the development of Cantonese in our subject, one of our major findings is that the distributional pattern of adjectival verbs in the child's Cantonese is predominantly predicative. The current results contrast with theories supporting attributive use of adjectives as being the prototype. DOI: 10.5353/th_b4852183 Subjects: Cantonese dialects - Adjective Bilingualism in children