Acquisition of Mandarin Chinese

[Ping Li]

Dear Annette,

There are two overview articles that might be helpful as pointers:

Erbaugh, M. (1992). The acquisition of Mandarin. In D. I. Slobin (Ed.),
Crosslinguistic study of language acquisition (Vol. 3). Hillsdale, NJ:
Lawrence Erlbaum.

Lee, H.-T. (1996). Theoretical issues in language development and Chinese
child language. In C.-T. Huang, & A.  Li (Eds.), New horizons in Chinese
linguistics. Dordrecht, Holland: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

There is a book by Li & Shirai (2000) on the acquisition of aspect that
gives a summary of aspect acquisition in Chinese (see
http://www.richmond.edu/~pli/book.html).  The following book is due out in
2004 from Cambridge that contains 13 overview articles for Part 1:
Language acquisition:

Li, P., Tan, L.H., Bates, E., & Tzeng, O.J.L. (Eds.) Handbook of East
Asian Psycholinguistics (Vol.1: Chinese). Cambridge University Press.

(see http://cogsci.richmond.edu/handbook.html)

Hope this helps!  Best wishes,

Ping


> I'd appreciate any pointers to articles on the acquisition of Chinese.
> thanks
> Annette
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