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Mandarin Competence of Chinese-English Bilingual Preschoolers - A Corpus-based Analysis of Singaporean Children's Speech (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
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Mandarin Competence of Chinese-English Bilingual Preschoolers - A Corpus-based Analysis of Singaporean Children's Speech (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
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This book provides readers with a detailed sketch of the Mandarin
competence of Chinese children in Singapore from different home
language backgrounds. Their Mandarin competence is defined in terms
of lexical diversity, syntactic complexity and code-switching
tendency. The findings presented show that there are statistical
differences in lexical diversity and syntactic complexity among the
compared groups of children, and these differences in linguistic
competence were found to be positively correlated to increased
Mandarin exposure at home. They also demonstrate that there are
statistical differences in code-switching tendency among the groups
of children compared, which were found to be negatively correlated
to increased exposure to Mandarin at home. A general relationship
between home language exposure and Mandarin competence was
established, although this relationship was found to be volatile,
especially among children who are more bilingually exposed. This
book shares these findings with linguists, language educators, and
language policymakers, both local and international.
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