Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Foreword V
3. Preface VII
4. Acknowledgments IX
5. Contents XI
6. Chapter 1. Introduction 1
7. Chapter 2. Cantonese lexical development in the early years 22
8. Chapter 3. Syntactic development in the early years 50
9. Chapter 4. Interrogative development in the early years 70
10. Chapter 5. Cognitive development in the early years: The case of temporal words 92
11. Chapter 6. General conclusion and implications 108
12. Appendix I: Jyutping: The Cantonese Romanization System proposed by the Linguistic Society of Hong Kong 117
13. Appendix II Early vocabulary inventory for Cantonese Chinese 119
14. References 190
15. Index 201