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Download full textErbaugh, Mary S. – Papers and Reports on Child Language Development, 1985
A study of the time- and aspect-marking of 24-month-old native Mandarin-speaking children analyzed their language during free play, and matched fifty utterance samples containing active predicates with all utterances using the perfective suffix "-le." It was found that the children mentioned the future, particularly their immediate intentions,…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Language, Chinese, Concept Formation
