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The meaning, grammatical features and usage of the Hong Kong Cantonese word "tim"司徒寶麗, Seto, Bo-lai. January 2008 (has links)
published_or_final_version / Chinese Language and Literature / Master / Master of Arts
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The emergence of serial verb constructions in child CantoneseFung, So-hing, Sandra., 馮素卿. January 2011 (has links)
This study examines the emergence and development of the Cantonese serial verb
construction (SVC) in children from 1;03 to 4;06 by investigating the naturalistic data
from two longitudinal corpora. This study presents a descriptive account of the
emergence and development of SVCs in early child Cantonese, seeks to explain the
developmental facts from a constructionist usage-based perspective, and compares the
development of SVCs in Cantonese-English bilinguals with that in Cantonese
monolinguals.
It is found that children start to produce SVCs spontaneously at an early age of 1;10
and that the overall frequency of occurrence is low during the developmental period
studied. The early emergence of SVCs is attributed to children’s preference for iconic
structures.
Four surface forms are identified and shown to emerge with a consistent order:
two-verb contiguous (1;10-11) < two-verb non-contiguous (2;00-01) < multi-verb
contiguous (2;02) < multi-verb non-contiguous (2;03-06). Structural and conceptual
complexities are suggested to be the possible factors that influence the order. The
earlier emergence of contiguous forms than non-contiguous forms is explained by the
hypothesis that cross-linguistically unmarked structures tend to be acquired earlier
than the marked ones (O’Grady 2000). Such a generalization is compatible with
constructionist approaches in suggesting cross-linguistic cognitive functional
preferences for language processing.
Children tend to use certain component verbs that express eight main semantic
notions. The study interprets children’s SVCs as concrete instantiations of eight
sub-constructions, which are subsumed by a more abstract high level SVC schema. It
is observed that sub-constructions develop asynchronously, as the developmental
paths of the four more frequently used SVCs (directional, dative, purpose and
resultative SVCs) are more advanced than the four less often produced SVCs
(instrumental, benefactive, comitative and locative SVCs). Developmental paths of
the former are shown to be consistent with Tomasello’s (2003) usage-based account of
language development: from concrete expressions, to pivot schemas, then to
item-based constructions. However, this study does not have enough data to suggest
the emergence of an abstract schema for the high level SVC.
It is found that children imitate adults’ previous SVCs and repeat their own
spontaneous productions frequently. These highlight the roles of the ambient language
and linguistic use to children’s language development.
The overall error rates of SVCs are found to be low. The reasons proposed for error
production, that are, adult input, generalization from item-based constructions and
complexity of target constructions, are considered as evidence to support the
constructionist usage-based approach.
This study shows that Cantonese-dominant bilinguals resemble Cantonese
monolinguals in developing SVCs. Language dominance is invoked to account for the
developmental similarities observed. Only a few code-mixed instances are recorded,
suggesting limited English influence on Cantonese SVCs. It is argued that SVCs are
not a vulnerable domain as they emerge early, and are produced with low error rates,
and are not susceptible to English influence.
By delineating the patterns of emergence and development of SVCs in child
Cantonese and explaining the findings with the constructionist usage-based
framework, it is hoped that this study would contribute to our understanding of child
language development. / published_or_final_version / Linguistics / Master / Master of Philosophy
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On noun-verb overlapping in Cantonese楊柳綠, Yeung, Lau-luk, Margery. January 1999 (has links)
published_or_final_version / abstract / toc / Linguistics / Master / Master of Philosophy
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Aspects of the Cantonese verb phrase: order and rankLam, Shi-ching, Olivia., 林思騁. January 2004 (has links)
published_or_final_version / abstract / toc / Linguistics / Master / Master of Philosophy
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Serial verb constructions in Cantonese and Dagaare: a head-driven phrase structure grammar analysisWong, Kwong-cheong., 黃廣昌. January 2006 (has links)
published_or_final_version / abstract / Linguistics / Master / Master of Arts
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The acquisition of middles and unaccusatives by Cantonese ESL learners.January 1998 (has links)
by Chan Mable. / Thesis submitted in 1997. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1998. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 120-124). / Abstract also in Chinese. / Chapter Chapter1 --- Second Language Acquisition Research: Background to the Present Study / Chapter 1.1 --- Introduction / Chapter 1.2 --- Rationale for the Present Study / Chapter 1.2.1 --- Structures and Properties of Middles and Unaccusative Verbs in English / Chapter 1.2.1.1 --- Derivation of Middles / Chapter 1.2.1.2 --- Derivation of Unaccusative Verb Structures / Chapter 1.2.2 --- Common Properties Shared by Middles and Unaccusative Verbs / Chapter 1.2.3 --- SLA Studies on L2 Acquisition of Middles and Unaccusative Verb Structures / Chapter 1.3 --- Research Issues / Chapter Chapter2 --- Theoretical Issues / Chapter 2.1 --- Introduction / Chapter 2.2 --- Why Is It Difficult to Acquire Middles and Unaccusative Verbs? / Chapter 2.2.1 --- "Common Properties shared by Passives, Middles and Unaccusatives" / Chapter 2.2.2 --- "The Differences between Passives, Middles and Unaccusatives" / Chapter 2.3 --- A Comparison of the Middles and Unaccusative Verbs in L1 and L2 / Chapter 2.3.1 --- The issue of L1 Transfer / Chapter 2.3.2 --- Middles in Cantonese / Chapter 2.3.3 --- Unaccusative Verbs in Cantonese / Chapter 2.4 --- Predictions of Difficulties posed by both structures / Chapter 2.4.1 --- Middles / Chapter 2.4.2 --- Unaccusative Verbs / Chapter Chapter3 --- Methodology and Results / Chapter 3.1 --- Experiment / Chapter 3.2 --- Subjects / Chapter 3.3 --- Procedures / Chapter 3.4 --- Rationale of the Tasks / Chapter 3.4.1 --- The Grammaticality Judgment Task / Chapter 3.4.2 --- Picture Description Task / Chapter 3.5 --- Scoring Method / Chapter 3.6 --- Results of the Picture Description Task / Chapter 3.7 --- Results of the Grammaticality Judgment Task / Chapter 3.8 --- Diagnostics of Middle Constructions and Unaccusative Verbs / Chapter 3.9 --- Prompting Effect / Chapter Chapter4 --- Discussion and Conclusion / Chapter 4.1 --- Research Issues Revisited / Chapter 4.2 --- Acquisition Problem with the Middle Construction / Chapter 4.3 --- Acquisition Problem with Unaccusative Verbs / Chapter 4.3.1 --- Paired Unaccusative Verbs / Chapter 4.3.2 --- Unpaired Unaccusative Verbs / Chapter 4.4 --- Do L2 Learners have Knowledge of Middle Constructions and Unaccusative Verbs? / Chapter 4.5 --- Developmental Patterns of L2 Learners in Acquiring English Middle Constructions and Unaccusative Verbs / Chapter 4.6 --- Is there L1 Transfer? / Chapter 4.7 --- How to Account for the Difficulties Posed by Middle Constructions and Unaccusative Verbs / Chapter 4.7.1 --- Acquisition of Unaccusative Verbs / Chapter 4.7.2 --- Acquisition of the Middle Constructions / Chapter 4.8 --- Incompleteness' and 'Divergence' in Second Language Acquisition / Chapter 4.9 --- Conclusion / References / Appendix I / Appendix II
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A semantic and pragmatic analysis of verbal particles in CantoneseChor, Oi-wan, Winnie., 左靄雲. January 2004 (has links)
published_or_final_version / abstract / toc / Linguistics / Master / Master of Philosophy
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Acquisition of Cantonese verbs in ostensive and non-ostensive contextsin three and four years old childrenChen, Li-ying, Lorinda., 陳立穎. January 1996 (has links)
published_or_final_version / Education / Master / Master of Education
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