Running Head: CANTONESE EXPRESSIVE VOCABULARY Is the Expressive Vocabulary of Young Cantonese Speakers Noun or Verb Dominated?
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The spontaneous utterances produced by 492 Cantonese-speaking children aged 36 to 60 months in 30-minute toy play contexts were collected. The incidence and percentage of different lexical classes, the ratio of noun and verb types and tokens were calculated. A statistically significant predominance of verb usage was found in the expressive utterances of the children. No similar predominance was found for nouns. Linguistic, cultural and contextual variables possibly underlying these outcomes are explored and discussed.
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