Abstract
Infant trilingualism is the acquisition of three languages before the onset of speech or the age of three. This paper reports a longitudinal study on Leo, a Mandarin-Cantonese-English trilingual child in Hong Kong. Analysis of Leo’s mean length of utterance and code-mixing patterns has found balanced development across languages and sensitivity to language context and interlocutor by 2;11. We propose that infant trilingualism is an effective strategy to promote the national language, preserve local dialects and increase early exposure to English through mobilising language resources in the family.
| Translated title of the contribution | Early Trilingual Development: The State of the Art and a Chinese Case |
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| Original language | Chinese (Simplified) |
| Pages (from-to) | 4-14, 43 |
| Journal | 国际汉语教学研究 |
| Issue number | 4（总第32期） |
| Publication status | Published - 2021 |
Research Keywords
- 三语习得
- 语言输入
- 语码混合
- 语料库
- trilingualism
- language input
- code-mixing
- language corpus
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GRF: Input and Experience in Early Trilingual Development
MAI, Z. M. (Principal Investigator / Project Coordinator), MOK, P. K. P. (Co-Investigator), WU, Z. (Co-Investigator) & YIP, C. Y. V. (Co-Investigator)
1/01/21 → 1/09/23
Project: Research
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