Tone acquisition in Cantonese: a longitudinal case study

1 June 1978

journal article
research article
Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Journal of Child Language

Vol. 5 (2) , 191-204
https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305000900007418

Abstract

There have been relatively few studies on tone acquisition, as compared to studies on the acquisition of segmentals, morphology, and syntax. Still fewer are the studies on Chinese language acquisition. The present paper reports on a longitudinal case study of a Cantonese-speaking child aged 2; 8 and considers the implications of tone acquisition for tone studies in general, and Cantonese tonology in particular.

Keywords

TONE STUDIES
LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
CHILD AGED
PAPER REPORTS
SPEAKING CHILD
CHINESE LANGUAGE
CANTONESE SPEAKING

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CONTROLLED INFANT INTONATION
Language Learning, 1949