M Hébert, F Lavoie, C Piché, M Poitras
Proximate effects of a child sexual abuse prevention program in elementary school children
Child abuse & neglect
current study examined early grammatical marking relatively understudied language mandarin using mandarin version macarthurbates communicative development inventory two waves data collection included 338 monolingual children 1736 months 143 female time 1 308 children 3255 months 139 female time 2 caregivers whose education ranged third grade elementary school postgraduate median high school data showed clear order grammatical marking acquisition among children supported findings linguistic specificity morphological development early lateacquired markers mandarin acquired order english languages negative mei2 bu4 possessive de classifiers aspect marker le earliestacquired markers followed modals negative bie2 adverbs sentence final particles resultative verb compounds aspect markers guo4 yao4 complex clauses aspect marker zheng4 acquired latest furthermore consistent previous crosslinguistic studies development patterns wide range mandarin grammatical markers indicate markers perceptually salient obligatory clear formmeaning mappings often appear isolation utterancefinal position acquired earlier others psycinfo database record c 2022 apa rights reserved