15.3000, Qs: DOM Acquisition; Mandarin Child Corpora

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LINGUIST List: Vol-15-3000. Thu Oct 21 2004. ISSN: 1068 - 4875.

Subject: 15.3000, Qs: DOM Acquisition; Mandarin Child Corpora

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1)
Date: 21-Oct-2004
From: Miguel Rodriguez-Mondonedo < Miguel.Rodriguez-Mondonedo at uconn.edu >
Subject: Acquisition of Differential Object Marking (DOM)

2)
Date: 21-Oct-2004
From: Marian Erkelens < m.a.erkelens at uva.nl >
Subject: Spontaneous Mandarin child language corpora


	
-------------------------Message 1 ----------------------------------
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 17:05:42
From: Miguel Rodriguez-Mondonedo < Miguel.Rodriguez-Mondonedo at uconn.edu >
Subject: Acquisition of Differential Object Marking (DOM)

Hi

I'm looking for information related with the ACQUISITION of Differential
Object Marking---DOM constructions include cases like the Spanish
preposition A, for direct objects that are [+animate] and [+specific], or
Turkish accusative suffix -yi for [+specific] objects.

There are several studies dealing with DOM constructions--including the
ones mentioned here:
http://linguistlist.org/issues/13/13-1129.html

However, it is difficult to find studies dealing with the acquisition of
these structures. I'm interested in this particular aspect of DOM
constructions. If you know works in this topic (including works in
progress), please, let me know. I will be happy to post a summary.

Thanks,

Miguel Rodr??guez-Mondo??edo

Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition


	
-------------------------Message 2 ----------------------------------
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 17:05:44
From: Marian Erkelens < m.a.erkelens at uva.nl >
Subject: Spontaneous Mandarin child language corpora

	
For my PhD-project on the acquisition of lexical categories (or
parts-of-speech) I would like to investigate how children acquire the
categories (if any) of their mother tongue. With this information I hope to
make inferences on the nature of lexical categories, the relationship
between categorial information and words, and the typology of lexical
categories.

With respect to the typological part, I would really like to include an
analysis of children acquiring Mandarin Chinese as a first language because
of the very interesting system of lexical categories in this language.

Up to now, I have been using the CHILDES-database, but it does not offer
Mandarin child language corpora of children older than 2 years and 3
months. I have been asking around if people know of any corpora with speech
of older children, but with no success.

I hope someone can help me with information about existing corpora of
Mandarin children older than 2;3. Or if you know people working on Mandarin
child language acquisition, I would be happy to know.


Linguistic Field(s): Language Acquisition




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