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undergraduate thesis: A corpus-based study of reduplication in Cantonese-speaking children aged 1;10 to 6;0
Title | A corpus-based study of reduplication in Cantonese-speaking children aged 1;10 to 6;0 |
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Issue Date | 2018 |
Publisher | The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong) |
Citation | Shao, S. Y. S. [邵雪瑤]. (2018). A corpus-based study of reduplication in Cantonese-speaking children aged 1;10 to 6;0. (Thesis). University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong SAR. |
Abstract | This is a preliminary descriptive study investigating the use of reduplication in preschool Cantonese-speaking children in Hong Kong. Cross-sectional data and longitudinal data from the Hong Kong Cantonese Child Language Corpus were analyzed. The results show that nearly all children use reduplication during early language development, particularly reduplicated noun, in their conversational speech, with a peak at the age of 1;11 to 2;08. Repetition of monosyllabic words, which is the major pattern observed, has a potential in facilitating segmentation of words in child-directed speech and promote early stage of vocabulary development. Dominance of high tones in the reduplication words also reflects the potential bias in segmenting and producing reduplication with the distinctive tone height. Meanwhile, weak relationship between the use of reduplication in children and that in adults was observed. Also, the use of reduplication is not likely to be related to age or length of utterance. These suggest the possibility that children develop their own way of reduplication for lexical learning as language develops. Hence the use of reduplication persists over the preschool period and it is not likely to facilitate the syntactic development in Cantonese-speaking children.
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Degree | Bachelor of Science in Speech and Hearing Sciences |
Subject | Cantonese dialects - Acquisition Cantonese dialects - Vocabulary |
Dept/Program | Speech and Hearing Sciences |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/287556 |
DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Shao, Suet Yiu Shirley | - |
dc.contributor.author | 邵雪瑤 | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-10-01T07:56:27Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2020-10-01T07:56:27Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2018 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Shao, S. Y. S. [邵雪瑤]. (2018). A corpus-based study of reduplication in Cantonese-speaking children aged 1;10 to 6;0. (Thesis). University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong SAR. | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/287556 | - |
dc.description.abstract | This is a preliminary descriptive study investigating the use of reduplication in preschool Cantonese-speaking children in Hong Kong. Cross-sectional data and longitudinal data from the Hong Kong Cantonese Child Language Corpus were analyzed. The results show that nearly all children use reduplication during early language development, particularly reduplicated noun, in their conversational speech, with a peak at the age of 1;11 to 2;08. Repetition of monosyllabic words, which is the major pattern observed, has a potential in facilitating segmentation of words in child-directed speech and promote early stage of vocabulary development. Dominance of high tones in the reduplication words also reflects the potential bias in segmenting and producing reduplication with the distinctive tone height. Meanwhile, weak relationship between the use of reduplication in children and that in adults was observed. Also, the use of reduplication is not likely to be related to age or length of utterance. These suggest the possibility that children develop their own way of reduplication for lexical learning as language develops. Hence the use of reduplication persists over the preschool period and it is not likely to facilitate the syntactic development in Cantonese-speaking children. | - |
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 | Cantonese dialects - Acquisition | - |
dc.subject.lcsh | Cantonese dialects - Vocabulary | - |
dc.title | A corpus-based study of reduplication in Cantonese-speaking children aged 1;10 to 6;0 | - |
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 | 2018 | - |
dc.identifier.mmsid | 991044261989203414 | - |