Is the Expressive Vocabulary of Young Cantonese Speakers Noun or Verb Dominated?

Autor/inn/en	Tse, Shek Kam; Chan, Carol; Li, Hui
Titel	Is the Expressive Vocabulary of Young Cantonese Speakers Noun or Verb Dominated?
Quelle	In: Early Child Development and Care, 175 (2005) 3, S.215-227 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0300-4430
Schlagwörter	Verbs; Nouns; Language Acquisition; Preschool Children; Foreign Countries; Caregivers; Contrastive Linguistics; Cultural Differences + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Ausland; Caregiver; Carer; Betreuungsperson; Pfleger; Linguistics; Kontrastive Linguistik; Kultureller Unterschied
Abstract	The spontaneous utterances produced by 492 Cantonese-speaking children aged 36-60 months in 30-minute toy play contexts were collected. The incidence and percentage of different lexical classes, the ratio of noun and verb types and tokens were calculated. A statistically significant predominance of verb usage was found in the expressive utterances of the children. No similar predominance was found for nouns. Linguistic, cultural and contextual variables possibly underlying these outcomes are explored and discussed. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10