Acquisition of Mandarin Chinese

[Hua Zhu]

If you are interested in Phonology, some recently published
book/articles on Mandarin/Putonghua are: 

Zhu Hua (2002). Phonological development in specific contexts: studies
of Chinese-speaking children. Multilingual Matters. 
(This book summaries the recent development in the studies on
Phonological development by Mandarin -speaking children in specific
contexts (ie.normally developing children, children with speech
disorders, children with hearing impairment and twins) and also some
information on Cantonese.)

Zhu Hua & Barbara Dodd (2000).The phonological acquisition of Putonghua
(Modern Standard Chinese). Journal of Child Language, 27 (1), 3-42.

Zhu Hua & Barbara Dodd (2000). Putonghua-speaking children with speech
disorder.  Clinical Linguistics and Phonetics. 14, 165-191. 

On lexicon: 
Tardif, T. 1996. Nouns are not always learned before verbs: evidence
from Mandarin speakers' early vocabularies. Developmental psychology 32,
492-504
Zhu Hua & Li Wei (1999). Stylistic variation in the early lexical
development of young  Putonghua-speaking children. Asia-Pacific Journal
of Speech, Language and Hearing, 4 (1), 39-51.

Hope this helps. 
Zhu Hua


>-----Original Message-----
>From: Professor Annette Karmiloff-Smith 
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>Subject: Acquisition of Mandarin Chinese
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>
>I'd appreciate any pointers to articles on the acquisition of 
>Chinese. thanks Annette
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