TY - JOUR
T1 - Chinese preschoolers' acquisition of temporal adverbs indicating past, present, and future
T2 - a corpus-based study
AU - Liang, Lu Yao
AU - Wu, Dandan
AU - Li, Hui
PY - 2019/7
Y1 - 2019/7
N2 - This study investigated the development of temporal adverbs in early childhood Mandarin. All cases of temporal adverbs indicating the past, present, and future were extracted from the Early Child Mandarin Corpus (168 children in four age groups: 2;6, 3;6, 4;6, 5;6). Data analyses indicated: (1) Mandarin-speaking children produced a repertoire of 21 types of temporal adverbs, and the children in the first age group (M = 2;6) were capable of using temporal adverbs to denote past, present, and future events; (2) within each age group, the children produced significantly more future temporal adverbs than the other two subtypes; and (3) there was a significant age effect that, with increased age, more children were able to produce all subtypes of temporal adverbs. Overall, findings of this corpus-based investigation shed light upon Chinese children's early-Attained ability to express the three fundamental notions of time by resorting to the appropriate linguistic devices.
AB - This study investigated the development of temporal adverbs in early childhood Mandarin. All cases of temporal adverbs indicating the past, present, and future were extracted from the Early Child Mandarin Corpus (168 children in four age groups: 2;6, 3;6, 4;6, 5;6). Data analyses indicated: (1) Mandarin-speaking children produced a repertoire of 21 types of temporal adverbs, and the children in the first age group (M = 2;6) were capable of using temporal adverbs to denote past, present, and future events; (2) within each age group, the children produced significantly more future temporal adverbs than the other two subtypes; and (3) there was a significant age effect that, with increased age, more children were able to produce all subtypes of temporal adverbs. Overall, findings of this corpus-based investigation shed light upon Chinese children's early-Attained ability to express the three fundamental notions of time by resorting to the appropriate linguistic devices.
KW - corpus-based study
KW - preschool children
KW - Mandarin Chinese
KW - temporal adverbs
KW - temporal expression
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85064909212&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1017/S0305000919000187
DO - 10.1017/S0305000919000187
M3 - Article
C2 - 31018877
AN - SCOPUS:85064909212
VL - 46
SP - 760
EP - 784
JO - Journal of Child Language
JF - Journal of Child Language
SN - 0305-0009
IS - 4
ER -