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Early Vocabulary Development in Mandarin (Putonghua) and Cantonese
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Tardif, Twila; Fletcher, Paul; Liang, Weilan; Kaciroti, Niko – Journal of Child Language, 2009
Parent report instruments adapted from the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories (CDI) examined vocabulary development in children aged 0 ; 8 to 2 ; 6 for two Chinese languages, Mandarin (n = 1694) and Cantonese (n = 1625). Parental reports suggested higher overall scores for Mandarin- than for Cantonese-speaking children from…
Descriptors: Form Classes (Languages), Monolingualism, Foreign Countries, Mandarin Chinese