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Sze, Felix; Tang, Gladys; Lau, Tammy; Lam, Emily; Yiu, Chris – Journal of Child Language, 2015
This paper investigates the development of discourse referencing in spoken Cantonese of fifteen deaf/hard-of-hearing children studying in a sign bilingual and co-enrolment education programme in a mainstream setting in Hong Kong. A comparison of their elicited narratives with those of the hearing children and adults shows that, despite a delay in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sino Tibetan Languages, Deafness, Hearing Impairments
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Xu, Xiang – International Education Studies, 2009
From the point of view on postcolonial theories, this paper explores English language's influence on normal Chinese and Hong Kong Chinese, and concludes the advantage and disadvantage of this phenomenon.
Descriptors: Chinese, Foreign Policy, English (Second Language), Second Language Learning
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Yip, Virginia; Matthews, Stephen – Studies in Second Language Acquisition, 2007
Findings from a longitudinal study of bilingual children acquiring Cantonese and English pose a challenge to the noun phrase accessibility hierarchy (NPAH; Keenan & Comrie, 1977), which predicts that object relatives should not be acquired before subject relatives. In the children's Cantonese, object relatives emerged earlier than or…
Descriptors: Nouns, Foreign Countries, Word Order, Language Acquisition