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Article: Is the expressive vocabulary of young Cantonese speakers noun or verb dominated?

TitleIs the expressive vocabulary of young Cantonese speakers noun or verb dominated?
Authors
Tse, SKChan, KKLi, H
KeywordsCantonese
Early childhood
Expressive vocabulary
Verb-dominated
Issue Date2005
PublisherRoutledge. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/03004430.asp
Citation
Early Child Development and Care, 2005, v. 175 n. 3, p. 215-227 How to Cite?
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0300443042000244028
AbstractThe spontaneous utterances produced by 492 Cantonese-speaking children aged 36-60 months in 30-minute toy play contexts were collected. The incidence and percentage of different lexical classes, the ratio of noun and verb types and tokens were calculated. A statistically significant predominance of verb usage was found in the expressive utterances of the children. No similar predominance was found for nouns. Linguistic, cultural and contextual variables possibly underlying these outcomes are explored and discussed.
Persistent Identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/48560
ISSN
0300-4430
2021 Impact Factor: 1.206
2020 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.475
ISI Accession Number ID
WOS:000210979500003

 

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dc.contributor.authorChan, KKen_HK
dc.contributor.authorLi, Hen_HK
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dc.identifier.citationEarly Child Development and Care, 2005, v. 175 n. 3, p. 215-227en_HK
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dc.description.abstractThe spontaneous utterances produced by 492 Cantonese-speaking children aged 36-60 months in 30-minute toy play contexts were collected. The incidence and percentage of different lexical classes, the ratio of noun and verb types and tokens were calculated. A statistically significant predominance of verb usage was found in the expressive utterances of the children. No similar predominance was found for nouns. Linguistic, cultural and contextual variables possibly underlying these outcomes are explored and discussed.en_HK
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dc.subjectCantoneseen_HK
dc.subjectEarly childhooden_HK
dc.subjectExpressive vocabularyen_HK
dc.subjectVerb-dominateden_HK
dc.titleIs the expressive vocabulary of young Cantonese speakers noun or verb dominated?en_HK
dc.typeArticleen_HK
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dc.identifier.emailTse, SK: sktse@hkucc.hku.hken_HK
dc.identifier.emailLi, H: huili@hkucc.hku.hken_HK
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