Children’s Early Production of Physical Action Verbs in Chinese

• Main Author: Gao, Helena Hong
• Other Authors: Sun, Chaofen
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press 2018
• Subjects: Word Learning; Physical Action
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/89197; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/44828
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Physical action verbs describe actions involving various parts of the human body. They appear in children’s vocabulary starting in the first year of life. This chapter introduces a corpus-based study of the production of physical action verbs of ten Chinese-speaking children between twenty-one and t...