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Clairetalk: A Cantonese-speaking child’s confrontation with bilingualism
Claire 的语言：一个粤方言儿童的双语经历
Timothy Light 黎天睦
Abstract 摘要
The subject of this article is a Cantonese-speaking infant who arrived in the United States at 16 months. Observations of her Cantonese speech at 19 months showed three striking anomalies: 1) disintegration of her tonal system; 2) the addition of a determiner substitute before any noun; 3) the use of the benefactive marker béi in sentences where tùhng ‘with’ is appropriate. These anomalies are discussed, and it is proposed that, although at this stage Claire spoke almost no English, the origin of these errors may have been the English-speaking environment into which she had just moved.
Journal of Chinese Linguistics volume 5 (ISSN 0091-3723)
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