Language Development in Chinese Children

This paper reviews the studies conducted by psychologists in mainland China on children's language development in the past decade. It consists mainly of four parts: children's phonological development, lexical development, syntactic development, and theories of language acquisition. Comparisons are made between the results of some of these studies and those of comparable studies conducted in other countries and districts. Finally, some brief comments are made on these studies

[1]  F. Moore.  Cognitive development and the acquisition of language , 1973 .

[2]  D. Ingram,et al.  Children's production and comprehension of questions , 1977, Journal of Child Language.

[3]  Eve V. Clark,et al.  Non-linguistic strategies and the acquisition of word meanings , 1973 .

[4]  T. Pechmann,et al.  lhr, dir, or mir? On the acquisition of pronouns in German children , 1978, Cognition.

[5]  R. Charney,et al.  Speech roles and the development of personal pronouns , 1980, Journal of Child Language.

[6]  D S Washington,et al.  Children's use of spatial prepositions in two- and three-dimensional tasks. , 1978, Journal of speech and hearing research.

[7]  Barbara Lust,et al.  Studies in the cognitive basis of language development , 1975 .

[8]  H. H. Clark,et al.  Psychology and language : an introduction to psycholinguistics , 1979 .

[9]  S. Kuczaj,et al.  On the acquisition of front, back, and side , 1975 .

[10]  Eve V. Clark.  Here's the Top: Nonlinguistic Strategies in the Acquisition of Orientational Terms. , 1980 .

[11]  Helen Smith Cairns,et al.  Who, why, when, and how: a development study , 1978, Journal of Child Language.

[12]  Ellen Bialystok,et al.  The Development of Language and Language Researchers : Essays in Honor of Roger Brown , 1989 .

[13]  Fuxi Fang.  An experiment on the use of classifiers by 4- to 6-year-olds. , 1985 .

[14]  L. Bloom.  Language Development: Form and Function in Emerging Grammars , 1970 .

[15]  K. Nelson,et al.  The young child's development of sentence comprehension: influence of event probability, nonverbal context, syntactic form, and strategies. , 1974, Child development.