Motion events in early child Mandarin: How preschoolers communicate dynamic spatial information in toy-play context?

• Dandan Wu ^[1] ; Hui Li ^[2] ; Sheila Degotardi ^[2]
  1. [1] Education University of Hong Kong

     Education University of Hong Kong

     RAE de Hong Kong (China)

     
  2. [2] Macquarie University

     Macquarie University

     Australia

     
• Localización: Lingua: International review of general linguistics, ISSN 0024-3841, Nº 270, 2022
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This study explored Chinese preschoolers’ expression of motion events in a toy-play context, focusing on developmental patterns and family predictors. A total of 1683 utterances produced by 192 preschoolers (aged 2, aged 3, aged 4, aged 5) about motion events were identified from the Corpus (oLi & Tse, Li & Tse, 2011). The descriptive and regression results revealed that: (1) there were significant age differences in the motion events production, utterance density, and lexical diversity (path verbs types), within the same half-hour play session; (2) the age 4.5 was identified as a critical period for developing caused motion events; (3) fathers’ daily time with children and the frequency of parents’ television watching with children were positive predictors for early motion events production.