Input and acquisition of Mandarin classifiers by English-Mandarin bilingual children

Ruying Qi; Wanhua Wu

Input and acquisition of Mandarin classifiers by English-Mandarin bilingual children

Ruying Qi
, Wanhua Wu

School of Arts

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Abstract

Previous studies on acquisition of classifiers by Mandarin-speaking monolingual children report that in comprehension studies the children often correctly select referents on the basis of classifiers, but in production they often use "general" classifiers like ge "[Chinese character

Original language	English
Title of host publication	China Language Strategies. Volume 2, Number 1
Place of Publication	China
Publisher	Nanjing University Press
Pages	86-106
ISBN (Print)	9787305152429
Publication status	Published - 2015

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Input and acquisition of Mandarin classifiers by English-Mandarin bilingual children

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