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Role of Parts of Speech in Utterance Length for Mandarin-Speaking Children Aged 3-6 Years
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Shang-Yu Wu; Hung-Ching Lin – SAGE Open, 2024
We investigated the effect of part of speech adoption on the utterance length of Mandarin-speaking children. A total of 209 typically developing Taiwanese children aged 3-6 years participated in the study. They included 90 boys and 119 girls recruited from preschools in Miaoli City, New Taipei City, and Taipei City. We collected children's…
Descriptors: Speech Acts, Speech Communication, Preschool Children, Foreign Countries
High Frequency Words Produced by Typically Developing Mandarin-Speaking Children between 3 and 6 Years of Age
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Wu, Shang-Yu; Lin, Shanju; Huang, Rei-Jane; Tsai, I-Fang – SAGE Open, 2021
The purpose of this study was to provide high frequency word lists for Mandarin-speaking children between 3 and 6 years of age and to explore the differences between each part of speech (POS) category among different age groups. Participants were 209 typically developing native Mandarin speakers aged between 3 and 6 years, born in Taiwan, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Mandarin Chinese
Mean Length of Utterance among Mandarin-Speaking Children with and without DLD
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Wu, Shang-Yu – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2020
This study explored the differences in mean length of utterance (MLU) and mean length of the five longest utterances (MLU5) between 5-6-year-old Mandarin-speaking children, and between typically developing children and children with developmental language disorders (DLD). Eighty-nine typically developing children and 35 children with a DLD…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Children, Mandarin Chinese, Child Language
Evaluative Language Used by Mandarin-Chinese-Speaking Dyads in Personal Narratives: Age and Socioeconomic Differences
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Lai, Wen-Feng; Chen, Yen-Yu – Early Child Development and Care, 2016
The aim of this study was to determine the effects of age and family socioeconomic status (SES) on the evaluative language performance of Mandarin-Chinese-speaking young children and their mothers. The participants were 65 mother-child dyads recruited in Taiwan. Thirty-four of these dyads were from middle-class families and 31 were from…
Descriptors: Language Usage, Mandarin Chinese, Working Class, Mothers
Performance Differences between Verbally Talented Preschoolers and Their Regular Counterparts in Storytelling
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Jen, Enyi; Tseng, Christine Chifen; Kuo, Ching-Chih – Gifted Education International, 2015
The primary purpose of this study was to compare language and narrative skills of both talented and regular young children in Taiwan. The participants were asked to tell a story based on images in children's picture books. Twelve children, who participated in a screening session designed to identify young talented children for the Enrichment…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Comparative Analysis, Story Telling, Verbal Ability
Children's Use of Requests in Chinese (L1) and English (L2): A Case Study in Taiwan
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Kuo, Li-feng – ProQuest LLC, 2010
Much research on requests has been carried out among L1 Chinese adults, L1 Chinese children, L1 children, L2 adults, and L2 children, but no studies to date have simultaneously examined Chinese children's requests in Chinese (L1) and English (L2). The aim of this study is to investigate how Taiwanese elementary school children vary requests…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Case Studies, Foreign Countries, Pragmatics