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By Sam-Po Law, Brendan Weekes, Anita M-Y Wong

This booklet represents the newest study in language issues in chinese language audio system via greater than 20 students from Asia, the united kingdom and the united states. It positive aspects unmarried case and workforce stories addressing theoretical and medical concerns bearing on language impairments and interpreting and writing problems in Chinese-speaking little ones and adults

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Wu, N. and Xuan, Y. (2003) Properties of school Chinese: Implications for learning to read. Child Development 74, 27Á 47. Tsao, F-F. (1979) A Functional Study of Topic in Chinese: The First Step Towards Discourse Analysis. Taipei: Student Book Co. Xing, H. (2002) Analysis of phonetics in semantic-phonetic compound characters in elementary school textbooks and a self-organizing connectionist model of character acquisition in Chinese. Unpublished PhD thesis, Beijing Normal University. P. (1987) Analysis of cueing functions of the phonetic in modern Chinese.

G. /k/ and /kh/ either phonologically or phonetically correctly (Zhu & Dodd, 2000c). Impaired phonology is also known to be characteristic of the communication profiles of hearing-impaired children. Zhu and Dodd (2001) reported a longitudinal case study of a Putonghua-speaking child with severe prelingual hearing impairment between the age of 3;5 and 4;5. The analysis of his single-word speech showed that he had complete syllable-final consonants and vowel repertories. His acquisition of tones was within normal range.

A demonstrative can modify a noun without a measure word in Mandarin, but not in Cantonese. 5. They are also known as sortal classifiers in Erbaugh (2006). 6. Abbreviations of grammatical markers used: ASP, aspect marker; POSS, possessive marker, SFP, sentence-final particles. 7. The distinction of subject and topic has long been one of the most debated issues in the study of Chinese grammar. Detailed discussion can be found in Tsao (1979), Jiang (1991) and Shi (2000). 8. Liu (2001) demonstrates that Mandarin is more topic-prominent than Cantonese.

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