Association of nouns and classifiers by bilingual children in Mandarin Chinese

• Main Author: Gao, Helena Hong
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Bilingual Children; Chinese Language Acquisition
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/87643; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/45458; https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Association-of-Nouns-and-Classifiers-by-Bilingual-Gao/a0d40fa8cd73b2187ee17ecf55d3edf5469a997f
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This study examines 7-to-12-year-old Singaporean bilingual children’s use of noun classifiers in Mandarin Chinese and their reasoning while making the associations between nouns and classifiers as a given task. The results show that the children made the association by applying their cognitive under...