The Bilingual Acquisition of English and Mandarin: Chinese Children in Australia
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Table 4.6. Types and tokens in James’s two-word combinations in English, 2;0–3;0 (N = 24).

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Table 4.7. Types and tokens in James’s two- and three-word combinations in English, 3;0–3;6 (N = 31).

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Table 4.8. Types and tokens in James’s syntactic patterns in English, 3;6;01–4;0 (N = 221).

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Table 4.9. Total corpus of multi-word negations in James’s English, 3;6;01–4;0 (N = 17).

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Table 4.10. Summary of types and tokens of James’s declarative, imperative, and interrogative patterns in English, 3;6;01–4;0.

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Table 4.11. Summary of types and tokens of James’s most frequent clause patterns in Mandarin multi-word utterances, 2;0–2;6 (N = 196).

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Table 5.1. Overview of first-person pronoun systems in Mandarin and English.

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Table 5.2. James’s early vocabulary in Mandarin and English by type (1;7–2;0).

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Table 5.3. Mandarin nominals vs. English nominals and relational terms.

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Table 5.4. English vocabulary at phase 2 (2;0–3;0;07).

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