Acquisition of Mandarin Chinese

[Ann Dowker]

You may be interested in the following book:

H.-C. Chen and O. Tzeng (eds.) Language Processing in Chinese;
Oxford: North Holland, 1992.

There are several chapters in it on child language acquisition.


You may also be interested in :

Chien, Y.C. and Lust, B. (1985). The concepts of topic and
subject in first language acquisition in Mandarin Chinese. Child
Development, 56, 1359-1375

Heng, F.S. and Peters, A.M. (1997). The role of prosody in the
acquisition of grammatical morphemes: evidence from two Chinese
languages [Mandarin and Taiwanese]. Journal of Child Language,
24, 627-650

Huang, C.C. (2000). Temporal reference in Chinese mother-child
conversation. Journal of Child Language, 27, 421-435

Li, P. and Bowerman, M.  (1998). The acquisition of lexical and
grammatical aspect in Chinese. First Language, 18, 311-350


I hope some of these are helpful.

Ann