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undergraduate thesis: The relationship between Cantonese lexical development and (sub)lexical characteristics
Title | The relationship between Cantonese lexical development and (sub)lexical characteristics |
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Authors | |
Issue Date | 2017 |
Publisher | The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) |
Citation | Tang, M. M. [鄧文安]. (2017). The relationship between Cantonese lexical development and (sub)lexical characteristics. (Thesis). University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong SAR. |
Abstract | This study investigated the lexical and sublexical characteristics, including word
frequency (WF), phonological neighbourhood density (PND) and word length (WL), of a
huge sample of Cantonese-speaking children. Parents of 989 Cantonese-speaking children
aged from 24 to 30 months completed the Cantonese version of the MacAurthur-Bates
Communicative Development Inventory : Words and Sentences (CCDI; Tardif, Fletcher,
Liang, & Kaciroti, 2009). Words from CCDI were coded for PND, WF and WL. The
relationships among vocabulary of the children, PND, WF and WL were examined. Children
were classified into typically developing (TD) and late talker (LT) group and the PND and
WF values of their vocabulary were compared. Results showed that PND and WF were both
strong predictors of children’s lexicons. PND accounted for 62.7% of the variance in the size
of vocabulary and WF also accounted for 8.2% of the variance in vocabulary size. Lexicons
of children with small vocabulary size consisted of words that have high PND and high WF
in Cantonese. This indicated that Cantonese-speaking children could extract statistical
properties of the language in the environment, for both typically developing children and late
talkers.
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Degree | Bachelor of Science in Speech and Hearing Sciences |
Subject | Children - Language |
Dept/Program | Speech and Hearing Sciences |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/272610 |
DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Tang, Man-on, Mandy | - |
dc.contributor.author | 鄧文安 | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-08-01T13:51:45Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2019-08-01T13:51:45Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2017 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Tang, M. M. [鄧文安]. (2017). The relationship between Cantonese lexical development and (sub)lexical characteristics. (Thesis). University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong SAR. | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/272610 | - |
dc.description.abstract | This study investigated the lexical and sublexical characteristics, including word frequency (WF), phonological neighbourhood density (PND) and word length (WL), of a huge sample of Cantonese-speaking children. Parents of 989 Cantonese-speaking children aged from 24 to 30 months completed the Cantonese version of the MacAurthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory : Words and Sentences (CCDI; Tardif, Fletcher, Liang, & Kaciroti, 2009). Words from CCDI were coded for PND, WF and WL. The relationships among vocabulary of the children, PND, WF and WL were examined. Children were classified into typically developing (TD) and late talker (LT) group and the PND and WF values of their vocabulary were compared. Results showed that PND and WF were both strong predictors of children’s lexicons. PND accounted for 62.7% of the variance in the size of vocabulary and WF also accounted for 8.2% of the variance in vocabulary size. Lexicons of children with small vocabulary size consisted of words that have high PND and high WF in Cantonese. This indicated that Cantonese-speaking children could extract statistical properties of the language in the environment, for both typically developing children and late talkers. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) | - |
dc.rights | The author retains all proprietary rights, (such as patent rights) and the right to use in future works. | - |
dc.rights | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. | - |
dc.subject.lcsh | Children - Language | - |
dc.title | The relationship between Cantonese lexical development and (sub)lexical characteristics | - |
dc.type | UG_Thesis | - |
dc.description.thesisname | Bachelor of Science in Speech and Hearing Sciences | - |
dc.description.thesislevel | Bachelor | - |
dc.description.thesisdiscipline | Speech and Hearing Sciences | - |
dc.description.nature | published_or_final_version | - |
dc.date.hkucongregation | 2017 | - |
dc.identifier.mmsid | 991044112078503414 | - |