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Form and function of negation in early developmental Cantonese.

C W Tam¹, S F Stokes

¹University of Hong Kong, 5/F, 34 Hospital Road, Hong Kong, SAR, China.

Journal of Child Language

|July 14, 2001

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This study examined how Cantonese-speaking children acquire negation, finding that non-existence emerges before rejection and denial. The research tracked negative markers and semantic categories in young children

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Area of Science:

Child Language Acquisition
Linguistic Development
Developmental Psycholinguistics

Background:

Understanding the acquisition of grammatical structures like negation is crucial for developmental linguistics.
Cantonese presents unique linguistic features for studying negation development.
Previous research (Bloom, 1970, 1991a) established semantic categories for negation acquisition.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the sequence of emergence for Cantonese negative markers (mou5, m4, mei6).
To analyze the acquisition trend of 11 semantic categories of negation in Cantonese-speaking children.
To examine the interplay between form and function in early language negation.

Main Methods:

Longitudinal analysis of spontaneous language samples.
Utilized data from the Hong Kong Cantonese Child Language Corpus.
Included eight children aged 1;5 to 3;8.

Main Results:

Identified the emergence sequence of specific Cantonese negative markers.
Documented the acquisition trend across 11 semantic categories of negation.
Observed that the semantic category Non-existence preceded Rejection and Denial, aligning with prior research.

Conclusions:

The study provides insights into the developmental trajectory of negation in Cantonese.
Findings support existing theories on the semantic basis of negation acquisition.
Highlights the importance of longitudinal data in understanding language development.