The Acquisition of the English Plural Morpheme by Native Mandarin Chinese-Speaking Children

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1297-1311

  Jia, Gisela ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Bilingual speakers; English as a second language; Mandarin Chinese; Morphology acquisition; Second language acquisition

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENGLISH LANGUAGE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMMIGRATION; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LEARNING; MALE; MANDARIN CHINESE LANGUAGE; NORMAL HUMAN; PLURAL MORPHEME; SPEECH; TASK PERFORMANCE; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHINA; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0346325950     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1092-4388(2003/101)     Document Type: Article

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