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Cantonese dialects --- Cantonese dialects --- Chinese language --- Chinese language --- Yue dialects --- Yüeh dialects --- Chinese language --- Particles. --- Grammar. --- Grammar. --- Dialects --- Canton --- China --- Languages.

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Utterance particles, also known as modal particles or sentence-final particles, form a class of words in Cantonese which is of great descriptive and theoretical interest to students of language. Most utterance particles do not have any semantic content (truth-conditional meaning), and few can be said to have a consistent grammatical function. They are notorious for being extremely resistant to conventional syntactic and semantic analysis. The aim of this book is to seek a better understanding of utterance particles by concentrating analytical attention on three of them.

Chinese languages --- Pragmatics --- Dialectology --- Cantonese dialects --- Chinese language --- Yue dialects --- Yüeh dialects --- Particles. --- Dialects. --- Dialects --- Canton --- Chinois (langue) --- Canton (chine) --- Particules --- Langue

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This book is the first publication on record that systematically and comprehensively addresses the acquisition and development of Cantonese in early childhood. It draws upon evidence from up-to-date reviews of associated literature, on the outcomes of numerous research studies conducted by the authors and on the outcomes of an in-depth study of the largest corpus of early childhood Cantonese. To supplement and illuminate published trends in the literature, carefully gathered reliable and valid empirical data are critically scrutinized. The evidence is used to clarify and examine theoretical as

Cantonese dialects --- Language acquisition. --- Early childhood education. --- Education --- Acquisition of language --- Developmental linguistics --- Developmental psycholinguistics --- Language and languages --- Language development in children --- Psycholinguistics, Developmental --- Interpersonal communication in children --- Psycholinguistics --- Chinese language --- Yue dialects --- Yüeh dialects --- Grammar. --- Acquisition --- Dialects --- Canton --- Cantonese. --- Child Language Development. --- Chinese Language. --- Language Acquisition.